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high, relieved only by frequent cool winds. In a cool, moist greenhouse 
where the temperature can be kept down without excessive shade, these 
conditions can be fairly well maintained. These species do not suffer so 
much from the humid heat of summer as the Colombian species do., A 
good circulation of air, which should not be allowed to become dry, is 
important. Stagnant corners, or positions where the circulation is not per- 
fect, such as a shelf against a wall, should be avoided. The plants should 
be hung as near to the glass as possible. If the two extremes—stagnation 
and a dry atmosphere—are guarded against, the result should be satisfac- 
 tory.—T. Anstiss, in Journal of Horticulture. 
OBITUARY. 
James HERBERT VEITCH.—We regret to record the death, on November 
13th last, of Mr. James Herbert Veitch, late managing director of Messrs, 
James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, after a long illness. The deceased, who was 
the son of Mr. James Gould Veitch, was born in 1868, and, after completing 
his education, commenced work at Chelsea in 1885. Some six years later 
he undertook a voyage to India, the Straits Settlements, Japan, Corea, 
Australia, and New Zealand, visiting many public and private gardens and 
nurseries, and studying the vegetation of the various places visited, his 
journeyings and impressions being recorded in a series of letters which 
appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle from 1902 to 1904, under the title 
‘© A Traveller’s Notes.” These were afterwards amplified and issued as a 
separate volume in 1896. In 1898 the Chelsea Nurseries were formed into . 
a private limited company, and two years later Mr. J. H. Veitch was 
appointed manager on the retirement of his uncle, Mr. Harry J. Veitch, 
Some time previously the firm had sent Mr. E. H. Wilson to China on a 
collecting expedition, which resulted in the introduction of many new plants, 
and a few Orchids, among which we recall Cypripedium tibeticum, King 
(Bot. Mag. t. 8070), Dendrobium bellatulum, Rolfe (/.c. t. 7985), and D. 
Wilsoni, Rolfe. It was during the preparation of the important work, the 
Hortus Veitchii, published last year, that the deceased showed signs of failing 
health, and soon after its publication he had to give up active work, and 
Mr. Harry J. Veitch returned to the post of managing director. Mr. James 
H. Veitch removed to the neighbourhood of Exeter, but gradually became 
worse, and the end came on Wednesday, November I 3th, when he 
succumbed toan attack of paralysis. He was interred at Exeter on Monday, 
November 16th. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss, for whom the greatest 
His name is commemorated among Orchids by the 
dium X James H. Veitch, a hybrid between C. Curtisii 
the establishment, and 
sympathy is felt. 
handsome Cypripe 
and C. Stonei platyteenium, which was raised in 
flowered for the first time in 1894. 
