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best known hybrids and species are grown. D. nobile, D. Wardianum, 
D. Findlayanum, D. crassinode, D. primulinum, and the many hybrids 
from these species all showed their buds in a more or less advanced stage. 
The next house of Orchids entered contained a very fine lot of hybrid 
Lelias and Cattleyas. A side stage was filled to excess with seedlings as 
yet unflowered, and these show remarkable progress since entering the 
collection. The centre stage contained fine plants of Cattleya Skinneri, 
C. Bowringiana and Lelia purpurata, also well-grown plants of Lelio- 
cattleya iuminosa, highburiensis, Canhamiana, Gottoiana, Haroldiana, 
Henry Greenwood, G. S. Ball, callistoglossa, Aphrodite, eximia, Pallas, 
and Martinetii, Cattleya x Maroni, C. x Iris, and C. X Mantinii. In 
flower were examples of C. X Fabia, C. x fulvescens, L.-c. Cappei and 
L.-c. Sunray. Altogether the collection of hybrids are very fine and 
extremely well grown. 
Mr. Butler is to be congratulated on the successful start he has made in 
this popular branch of horticulture, and doubtless more will be heard at 
some future time of the collection, so well looked after by his able gardener, 
Mr. Jones. J. M. 
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OBITUARY. 
ERNST PrivzER.—It is with great regret that we have to record the 
death, from heart failure, on December 3rd last, of Prof. E. Pfitzer, 
Professor of Botany at Heidelberg, and the author of various treatises on 
the morphology and classification of Orchids. Prof. Pfitzer was in 
England last summer, and took part in the recent Hybridisation Con- 
ference, when he read a paper entitled “‘ Hybridisation as a proof of natural 
affinity among Orchids” (see p. 227 of our last volume). The deceased 
was the author of several important papers on Orchids. In 1882 appeared 
his Grundziige einer Ver gleichenden Morphologie der Orchideen, a large quarto 
volume of 194 pages, with three plates and a coloured Frontispiece showing 
Cycnoches Warscewiczii bearing flowers of both sexes on the same 
pseudobulb. This was followed, in 1886, by Morphologische Studien ueber 
die Orchideenbliithe, an octavo volume with 139 pages and 65 figures, and, in 
1887, by Entwurf einer Natiirlichen Anordnung der Orchideen, a similar work 
of 108 pages. In 1889 he contributed an account of the genera of Orchids 
to Engler and Prantl’s Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, and in 1895 he wrote 
a paper entitled ‘‘ Beitrage zur Systematik der Orchideen” for the nine- 
teenth volume of Engler’s Jahrbiicher. In 1903 appeared his ‘* Orchidacex- 
Pleonandrez ”’ in Engler’s Pflanzenreich, for which work he was writing an 
account of the Coelogynez on his last visit to England. In these different 
papers he emphasised the importance of a study of the vegetative 
characters in the classification of Orchids. It was in 1886 that Prof. Pfitzer 
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