THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vou. 1) DECEMBER, 1893. [No. 12. 
NOTES. 
Tar Royal Horticultural Society will hold its last meeting of the year on 
ember 12th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour. 
% Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son, of the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
pper Holloway, inform us that they intend to publish a new and much 
: llarged seventh edition of the Orchid Growers’ Manual early in the new 
: The size is large octavo, and there will be numerous additional 
trations. 
A new work of 800 pages is announced, entitled Les Orchidées Exotiques 
Leur Culture en Europe, by M. Lucien Linden, editor of the Fournal des 
chidées, to be issued at the beginning of next year. 
At the same time we learn that the Journal des Orchidées will be sus- 
ded for a year or two, at the end of the present volume; that is on the 
of March next. 
Our article on the ‘‘ Nomenclature of Hybrids” (p. 349) has called forth 
Me discussion on the subject. The Gardeners’ Chronicle (p. 627), thinks 
there is “a great deal. to be said in favour of a purely verninculae 
Stem of naming,” and considers it “ undesirable to mix up the history of a 
t with its name, and to complicate matters by a cumbrous and em- 
assing system of nomenclature.” 
The former point is not in accordance with the recommendations of ee 
Horticultural Society’s Nomenclature Committee, which we thought 
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