ee THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, 19¢3. _ 
We hope that the projected work will meet with wide support. Its 
necessity has often been urged upon us, but the progress of hybridisation 
has been so great as to render it impossible to keep pace with the rapidly 
growing mass of records. The rapidly growing synonymy has often been 
deplored, and we believe that much of it has arisen from want of system, a 
condition of things which we hope will be remedied by the present 
arrangement, for we hope that in future hybridists will send us records of 
their additions that they may be regularly incorporated. 
A further annouacement will appear shortly. 
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ORCHIDS IN THE SUB-ALPINE CORDILLERAS OF 
SOUTH MEXICO. 
IN a recent issue of Indian Gardening (Oct. 24th, p. 272) we find a ve 
interesting article by Mr. J.C. Harvey, La Buena Ventures, South Mexico, 
entitled ‘Notes of a Journey to the Sub-Alpine Cordilleras of South 
Mexico,” from which the following is condensed, as it gives some interesting 
glimpses of familiar Orchids in their native homes, and the conditions under 
which they grow. 
It had long been Mr. Harvey’s desire to visit the Sierras of his district, 
but the cares of a large estate never seemed to admit of such a vacation 
until the spring of this year. In February last, however, it was his good 
fortune while in Cordoba to meet a Mexican engaged in collecting Orchids 
as a business, who offered to act as guide, and accordingly about the end of 
March the writer started by the railway train to Cordoba. After reaching se 
the Rio Colorado the countr ; 
plains, with small stretches of low forest growth, including oaks growing 
company with a spiny palm attaining a height of 25ft. On the oaks he 
noted ‘Schomburgkia tibicinis in immense masses, and when in bloom 
presenting a fine sight; a few other Orchids were noticeable, such as 
Epidendrum Schomburgki 
On reaching 
: € was in search of, and which did not occur at high 
tevels. Some two leagues from the village they came to a long thin strip of 
y becomes quite open, consisting of grassy 
