258 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Hybrids between Cypripedium and Selenipedium have more than once 
been noted in our pages, notably at p. 66 of the present volume. T. W. 
Swinburne, Esq., Corndean Hall, Winchcombe, Cheltenham, writes that he 
had a flower each of Cypripedium Spicerianum magnificum and Selenipedium 
Schlimii, which he crossed both ways. The Selenipedium pod ripened about 
seven months ago, and now good strong seedlings are showing on the pot, 
but the Cypripedium pod, the reverse cross, is not yet ripe. 
Referring to the note on p. 247 of Cypripedium bellatulum with two- 
flowered scapes, Mr. Swinburne also states that he has a very fine variety 
which has borne two flowers on each scape for the last two years. 
Professor Penzig, of Genoa, has recently published in the Mémoires de la 
Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg an article on ‘‘ Mon- 
strosities in Orchids,” in which he reviews the principal structural modifica- 
tions that occur. 
OBITUARY. 
WiLu1AM HucH GowER.—We regret to have to announce the death, at 
Tooting, on July 30th, of Mr. William Hugh Gower, in his 59th year. Mr. 
Gower has been ailing for several months, in fact he never really recovered 
from an attack of influenza which he had some time ago. Mr. Gower was 
formerly with Messrs. Jackson and Son, of Kingston, and afterwards with 
Messrs. Rollisson, B. S. Williams, and at Kew. Of late years he has been 
well known in connection with the horticultural press, more especially in 
connection with Orchids, about which he contributed largely to The Garden, 
while since Thomas Moore’s death he has assisted in the preparation of the 
Orchid Album, His one contribution to our columns was respecting Lycaste 
Skinneri alba, at p. 229 of our last volume, though we have a letter from 
him expressing his appreciation of the work being done by the Orcurp 
REview. He only survived his father a few months. 
AUGUSTE LINDEN.—We also regret to hear of the death of M. Auguste 
Linden, son of M. J. Linden, of Brussels, which took place at Luxembourg 
on August roth, at the age of 44 years. For ten years he served as an 
officer in the Belgian army, which he left in 1885, and went on a collecting 
expedition to the islands of the Indian Ocean, during which he sent home 
Aérides Augustianum, Spathoglottis Augustorum, Vanda Lindeni, Den- 
drobium stratiotes, D. strebloceras, D. inauditum, and other Orchids and 
ornamental plants. After a rest of some months in Europe he went to the 
Congo, whence he obtained Ansellia congoensis and the remarkable Lisso- 
chilus giganteus. Some time after his return home he met with a serious 
accident, which necessitated the amputation of the left arm, and paralysed 
the other, leaving him quite an invalid for the last six years of his life. 
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