February, 1914.J 



THE ORCHID WORLD. 



it as a very distinct and brilliantly coloured 

 new Aerides, remarking that it was quite 

 distinct both in foliage and flower from A. 

 crispum, with a plant of which species A. 

 crispum Warneri was staged. Since that 

 time plants have occasionally been imported, 

 and we believe they have come from the 

 neighbourhood of Bombay. 



" A. crispum Warneri is an evergreen, erect 

 in growth, bearing dark green leaves which 

 are ascending, not horizontal as in A. crispum, 

 from five to six inches in length, and about 

 two inches in breadth, the stem and base of 

 the leaves being purplish black. It is a 

 prolific bloomer, and the large flowers are 

 deliciously fragrant ; indeed, it possesses 

 every good quality to be desired in a plant. 

 The sepals and petals are white, flushed with 

 rose, the lip deep rosy purple. The flowers 

 are produced in May and June, and continue 

 in beauty three or four weeks." 



A new Odontoglossum house has recently 

 been erected, and another house specially 

 devoted to Dendrobiums. We hope in the 

 near future to give further details of the most 

 interesting plants. 



OBITUARY. 



BY the death of Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., which took place on December 

 23rd last, the Orchid world has lost 

 one of its most prominent and highly esteemed 

 members. With many amateurs a definite 

 date of commencing the cultivation of Orchids 

 can be given, but with Sir Trevor it is not so, 

 for he was practically brought up in close 

 connection with them. His mother, Mrs. 

 Lawrence, of Ealing Park, was a celebrated 

 cultivator of these plants, and although he 

 may have inherited much of her love for 

 gardening, there is no doubt that Orchids 

 appealed to him in his early days by reason 

 of their aristocratic nature, their quaintness, 

 and their exquisite beauty. 



Sir Trevor was born on December 30th, 

 1 83 1, and was the only son of the first 

 Baronet, Sir William Lawrence, F.R.S. He 

 studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's 



Hospital, and subsequently served in the 

 Indian Medical Service. In 1885 he was 

 elected President of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, and remained in office until failing 

 health compelled him to retire in the early 

 part of 1913. 



At an early date Sir Trevor commenced 

 the purchasing of valuable Orchids, and the 

 continued eagerness with which he built up 

 the collection, as well as his close application 

 of an intimate knowledge of the plants, soon 

 made it one of the finest in existence. In 

 1 88 1 he purchased for 140 guineas the rare 

 and elegant Cypripedium Stonei platytasnium, 

 a propagated piece from Mr. Day's original 

 plant. Perhaps the most noteworthy addition 

 to the collection was made in September, 

 1883, when at an auction sale he paid 235 

 guineas for Aerides Lawrenciae, a new species 

 named by Reichenbach in honour of Lady 

 Lawrence. 



Not only did Orchids of high commercial 

 value attract the attention of Sir Trevor, but 

 rare species, whose flowers were oftentimes 

 neither beautiful nor interesting, found a 

 comfortable home in his extensive glass- 

 houses at Burford. As an exhibitor at the 

 Royal Horticultural Society he received many 

 awards, and to give but one example of the 

 complete way in which Orchids were culti- 

 vated by him we may instance the genus 

 Polystachya, of which no less than thirteen 

 species have been awarded the Society's 

 Botanical Certificate. Sir Trevor also 

 exhibited many new hybrids, and when 

 naming them he always endeavoured to make 

 a combination of the parental words, so that 

 a ready reminder of their parentage might be 

 available. A good example is Ljelio-Cattleya 

 Trimyra (C. Trianas x L.-C. Myra). 



As the worthy President of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society for the long period of 

 twenty-eight years he accomplished an 

 immense amount of good work towards the 

 encouragement and improvement of horti- 

 culture, and in this his excellent judgment 

 and life-long experience allowed him to be 

 greatly respected and honoured by many 

 thousands of horticulturists, both in his own 

 and other countries. 



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