324 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ NovEMBER, 1906. 
recorded in the case of Cattleya and Masdevallia, the rest being failures. 
A good number of Orchids from Mr. Young’s collection were figured by 
M. Goossens in the Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées, and we find a 
list of them in Mr. Young’s records, showing thirty to have been selected, 
all but three being Cypripedes. 
It now remains to mention Mr. Young’s extensive series of Cypripedium 
records, compiled with great industry during a long series of years. When 
and how it commenced we have no exact means of ascertaining, but first we 
find a small quarto volume in which the names of species and hybrids are 
entered alphabetically, with the author, country or parentage, introducer or 
raiser. 
This is followed by a second list arranged alphabetically under the 
seed parent, followed by the pollen parent and the resulting hybrid. Lastly 
comes the records of Mr. Young’s own experiments. | This was soon out- 
grown, and we find them transferred to a larger volume, with a column 
added for references to descriptions and figures, the various awards granted 
to the plants being also kept posted up. At the end of this volume we find 
Mr. Young’s own crosses, now greatly augmented, entered up. This goes 
to the end of 1898, when the space was exhausted, and Mr. Young copied 
out the Catalogue into a still larger volume, and started a supplementary 
“‘ Hybridising record,” commencing in 1899. In this the headings to the 
columns were all printed and ruled, showing that the volume was specially 
prepared. These two volumes were kept posted up to the last, in the 
neatest possible fashion. The value of the Catalogue is that by its means 
most of the recorded names can he traced. 
All this did not exhaust Mr. Young’s activities, for we find a list of 
varieties of Orchids in flower during each month of the year in the F ringilla 
collection, commencing in January 1901, and terminating in April 1906, sais 
Jatter apparently unfinished, though not much smaller than the preceding 
month, when a total of 125 is entered. The monthly totals for 190% are a5 ¢ 
ollows :—January, 128; February, 121; March, 108; April, 113; May, 
107; june, 85; July, 82; August, 72; September, 67 ; October, 59 
November, 110; and December, 128. Other years show a similiar decline 
during the months of June to September, July on an average being . 
dullest month of the year. Such a statistical record is interesting, 27 
confirms the observations of others, though the details would vary according 
to the composition of different collections. 
That Mr. Young was an enthusiast is certain, and we have § 
these details because we believe that they will be interesting to hy 
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In conclusion we should add that he was always careful to acknowleds 
the assistance rendered by his able gardener, Mr. Poyntz. 
