﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



THE ORCHID STUD-BOOK. 



We are pleased to find that numerous readers are taking an interest in the 

 forthcoming Orchid Stud-Book, and in answer to enquiries from various 

 correspondents we cannot do better than give some particulars as to the 

 scope and arrangement of the work. 



The aim of the compilers has been to provide a record of the Orchid 

 hybrids that have already been raised, and a guide to the literature of the 

 subject : at the same time providing a standard of nomenclature on a 



The work is divided into two parts. In Part I. the species and hybrids 

 used as parents are enumerated, in alphabetical sequence, and under each 

 is given the various kinds with which it has been crossed (also alphabetic- 

 ally arranged), followed by the name of the resulting hybrid. A corres- 

 ponding entry is, of course, given under the second parent, and thus one 

 can see at a glance the different kinds with which any given species has 

 been crossed, and also find the name of the hybrid as readily as one can 

 consult a dictionary. 



Part II. contains an alphabetical arrangement of the various hybrids 

 under their adopted names, these, of course, agreeing with those given in 

 Part I. The information respecting them is arranged as follows :— (i) the 

 adopted name ; (2) the parentage : (3) the original publication ; with (4) 

 references to figures or other important additional information ; (5) the 

 raiser or exhibitor; (6) the date of appearance, and (7) the synonymy (when 

 different names have been applied to the same hybrid). In a few cases 

 critical or explanatory notes have been added. 



It might appear that the carrying out of the work under such a system 

 would be a very simple matter, but in practice it has been quite the 

 reverse. In some cases the parents are either unknown or unrecorded — 

 some being stray seedlings — in others the records are obviously erroneous 

 or contradictory, and it has been a matter of the greatest difficulty to know 

 where some of them should be placed. An example which was given at 

 page 324 of our tenth volume, affords a good illustration of this. Owing to 



