THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
HYBRIDS OF IDENTICAL PARENTAGE. 
I guITE agree with “Argus” in his remark that it is time that the too 
common practice of giving new names to hybrids of identical parentage 
should be checked. The list he suggests would, I am sure, be too long for 
reproduction in your pages, and I do not think it would be of any practical 
good as a preventative. It seems to me that what has already been done 
cannot now be remedied, and it would be useless to point out the names of 
those most guilty in this respect. It also seems immaterial whether the 
fault has been intentional or simply committed in ignorance. The point 
now is, how best to remedy the evil for the future. 
It surely would not be asking too much to request the Orchid Committee 
to decline to take notice of hybrids presented under new names in all cases 
where hybrids of the same parentage have been previously recorded. And 
the task of keeping a correct list for reference, showing at a glance whether 
a hybrid of such and such a parentage has already been named, should not 
be beyond their power. With such a record it would be easy to see what 
crosses have been made, and the names given to the production. Editors 
of gardening papers might also assist in this work. 
I was pleased to note that you have recorded Sander’s hybrid Cypri- 
pedium Xx Said Lloyd as C. x Lloydiz. I think there are obvious objections 
to naming Orchids after living people, whether ladies or gentlemen, unless 
latinised. Leaving out other obvious considerations, there is the possibility 
of wishing to add a varietal name, and such additions as expansum, rubrum, 
nigrum, &c., &c., would not appear well after the name of a lady. 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
Sefton Park, Liverpool. 
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CYPRIPEDIUMS AT KEW. 
THE following note on the collection of cultivated Cypripediums at Kew 
is extracted from a letter published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for Feb. I sth, 
last (page 204). There are sixty species of Cypripedium (including 
Selenipedium) in the collection, and, except only the rare C. Fairieanum, 
these are all that are known to be in cultivation. Of the hundreds of 
hybrids now known (in the list published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle last 
year, February 16, p. 199, there are 522 enumerated), only Aaron 
Tepresented at Kew. During the winter the more delicate species are ept 
in the small private houses, where the conditions are more suitable than be 
the large houses to which the public are admitted; but anyone Aion y 
interested is permitted to see the plants in the private houses. Of these 
fourteen species and seven hybrids are in flower. 
