2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, 1903 
turn is working for the advancement of knowledge. May the Orchid 
Review live to celebrate its second decade by continuing to earn the 
appreciation of Orchidists the wide world over. 
CHARLES C. HURST. 
12th December, 1902. 
We made a brief reference last month to the completion of our tenth 
volume, and now we have to thank several esteemed friends and corres- 
pondents for letters of congratulation and good wishes for the future. It is. 
certainly pleasant to look at our ten completed volumes, but the work has 
entailed a considerable effort, and we have to thank all those whose kind 
co-operation and support have rendered the achievement possible. It may 
be interesting to reproduce part of our original programme. 
OUR PROGRAMME. 
“The Orchid Review has been established to supply a want which we believe has long 
been felt among amateurs of Orchids, namely, a journal devoted to their special interests. 
“The cultivation of Orchids has become a most important, and to some extent also, a 
special branch of modern horticulture. The number of people and the amount of capital 
employed directly or indirectly in it is very large. Already the subject has a literature 
of its own, though too scattered to be readily accessible, and anything tending to: 
concentrate it would confer a boon upon those interested in the subject. 
“ In this belief we have decided to establish a monthly repertorium of information on every 
important branch of Orchidology, and to present it to the reader in a form suitable both for 
present use and future reference. We believe there is room for such a publication, without 
unduly interfering witb the existing horticultural press, and we look with confidence for 
such support as shall enable us to prosecute our labours with success. 
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“It is intended to make the work a general repertorium of Orchid lore, and by 
conducting it on broad and independent lines to enlist the sympathy and secure the 
support of all lovers of this unrivalled family.” 
The omissions from the above refer chiefly to details, and there are 
many who have been readers from the commencement who can judge how 
far the programme has been carried out. We have aimed at making the 
work an impartial record of the principal events in the Orchid world, and 
we believe that our pages contain a concise history of Orchid cultivation for 
the last ten years. And we may go still further back, for the “ History of 
Orchid Hybridisation,” from its commencement about the middle of the 
nineteenth century to date, was detailed in our first volume, and the “‘ History 
of Orchid Cultivation ” covers the period from 1732, when the first tropical 
Orchid (Bletia verecunda) flowered in England, down to 1847, the period 
we have now reached. The interesting series of articles entitled ‘Notes. 
on Orchids in the Jungle,” by the late Major-Gen. Berkeley, are types 
of many which have been devoted to Orchids in their native homes- 
Accounts of many of our leading collections have been given, with some in 
