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the great difference in theirshape and colour. This plant is being largely 
worked on at present by hybridists, and we shall in a short time see a 
wonderful series of fine hybrids from it, but it is to those who are selecting 
the fine varieties of it that most success will come. 
In the conservatory attached to the house were quite a number of choice 
things in flower, the most noticeable being that splendid hybrid Cattleya 
X Octave Doin Goodson’s variety, which had just received a First-class 
Certificate. There was also a most striking form of Brassocattleya Queen 
Alexandra, with fine, large, broad segments, and with little of the twist 
which is usually present in B. Digbyana hybrids, a finely grown and 
flowered Cypripedium xX Chapmanii magnificum, and a score or two of 
other interesting and showy plants. 
Mr. Goodson has had a number of his finer things painted, and instead 
of storing these away out of sight, he has had them framed and hung up in 
a small room. This is an admirable way of seeing them to advantage, 
only I believe there is a danger of the colour fading through exposure to 
light. Is this a very real danger? 
A very large number of Mr. Goodson’s plants have been bought in 
flower, and with regard to the Lelio-cattleyas, which form a considerable 
part of the collection, many will—good as they were when bought—have 
good prospects of improving; for we know that these are not often at their 
best the first, or even the second, time of flowering. There is also in the 
collection a considerable number of unflowered seedlings of various kinds, 
whose flowering will keep the interest awake. 
Lastly, which is the best omen for the continued prosperity of this 
collection, there is, I think, the right spirit abroad. | Mr. Goodson and his 
sons, Mr. Harry and Mr. Herbert Goodson, have all that intimate 
acquaintance with their plants which only a genuine interest can give, and 
with Mr. Day as an earnest and experienced grower, we find here a 
combination which augurs well for the advancement of this collection. 
J. M. BLAck. 
RULES OF BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. 
AN International Botanical Congress was held at Vienna in 1903, for the 
discussion of the subject of Botanical Nomenclature and other important 
matters, and the Report has just been issued. It is notorious that some 
recent developments have led to serious inconvenience, for example, one 
industrious ‘“‘ reformer” found it ‘‘necessary’’ to change about thirty 
thousand plant names before reporting on his collection, and one object of 
the Congress was to draw up amended rules. These are now issued, in 
French, English, and German. These “International Rules for Botanical 
Nomenclature, chiefly of Vascular Plants,’ have been passed by the 
