Th ORCHID: REVIEW. 
VoL. XVII.] JANUARY, 1909. [No. 193. 
THE ORCHID STUD-BOOK. © 
IT is with great satisfaction that we are able to announce the completion 
of the Orchid Stud-Book, whose appearance has been awaited with no little 
impatience by many of our readers. 
Its object, as pointed out in the Preface, is ‘‘ to provide an authentic 
list of existing Orchid hybrids of artificial origin, arranged on a uniform 
system, so as to show at a glance the crosses that have already been 
made, the adopted name of the hybrids, the works in which they have been 
described and figured, the original raiser or exhibitor, and the date of first 
flowering—in short it is inténded as a guide to the already vast literature of 
the subject, and a standard of nomenclature.” 
Some of the difficulties met with during its execution are pointed 
out. ‘These have partly arisen through the same hybrid having 
been raised independently in different collections, but chiefly through 
want of a uniform system. Some raisers have considered all the 
seedlings from the same cross as forms of one, while others have 
givén distinct names to different seedlings out of the same seed-pod. 
me hybrids have received Latin or classical names, in accordance with 
the rules of binomial nomenclature, or have been distinguished by the 
joint names of the two parents, while others have been named in the 
vernacular. A few have been recorded without names. In addition to this 
there are many hybrids whose parentage has been lost, or whose records are 
incomplete, contradictory, or erroneous. Stray seedlings, loss or absence 
of record of parentage, change of ownership of unflowered seedlings, the 
contemporaneous flowering of the same hybrid in different collections, and 
the naming of hybrids without reference to the work of earlier operators, 
have all contributed their quota to the confusion arising from the 
multiplicity of systems of nomenclature, and the object of the work is to 
_ provide a remedy for this confusion, so far as possible.” 
The work is divided into two parts :— 
‘‘ Part I. contains an enumeration of the species and hybrids which have 
been used as parents, these being arranged in alphabetical sequence, 
followed by the name of the resulting hybrid. The name of the first parent 
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