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this pest appears one is sometimes constrained to prick off sooner than 
would otherwise be the case. If the seedlings are not being eaten, and ar 
otherwise progressing, leave them alone as long as possible, as they wi 
make much more rapid headway than if changed. This is one of th 
things that are difficult to account for, but it may be supposed that t 
‘hairs which spread out from the seed before the root makes its appearance, 
-excrete some substance which renders the required constituents soluble, 
-the same way that roots are said to do, and when the seedling is laid 
‘fresh material it has to wait until it has got these constituents into a con 
-dition fit for absorption. At any rate the fact remains that when these tiny 
rootless seedlings are removed, they leave some fostering agent behind. 
Routine work was dealt pretty fully with last month. : 
THE Horipay SEAsoN.—I may be permitted to remind forgetful people — 
that we are now in the midst of the holiday season. No one is more | 
-deserving of, and no one will benefit more by, ten or fourteen days’ change — 
than those employed among the Orchids. This is hardly calendarial, but 
[ should have no difficulty in associating the two. This holiday is nota — 
favour nor a concession, but a right, and the giving of it a duty, and in = 
-every establishment it should be possible to arrange matters as soon as the . 
busy season is over. a 
OBITUARY. 
REGINALD YouNG.—It is with deep regret that we have to announce the 4 
-death of this well-known Orchidist, which took place at his residence, 3, 
Linnet-lane, Sefton-park, Liverpool, on June 7th last. The deceased gentle- 
man, who was 62 years of-age, has been a victim to diabetes for some Con 
siderable time, and the malady which brought about the end, after some six 
weeks of suffering, was one of the sequel often associated with this disease 
He was interred at Smithdown-road Cemetery on Saturday, June gth. 
Mr. Young has been an enthusiastic cultivator of Orchids for about # 
-quarter of a century, and of late years has devoted himself largely 
-Cypripedes, in the raising of which—with the assistance of his able gardenet, 
Mr. Thomas J. Poyntz, who has been with him about twenty years—he has 
been very successful. We had the pleasure of visiting him in 1899; and 
gave an account of the collection (O.R. v. Pp. 275-277), when we wrote :— 
“The Cypripediums, however, are Mr. Young’s special hobby, and of these 
he has a fine collection, besides hundreds of his own seedlings, in all stages 
from the tiniest seedlings up to those that have reached the flowering sta8® 
These belong to upwards of 150 different batches, raised between 1892 4% 
1898, and some good things may be anticipated during the next few years: 
Mr. Young has recorded all his crosses in the most careful manner, and 
further has the most complete list of hybrids of this group from all sources 
