like an appeal for "_Two Lovely Blue Eyes_."
But if it means something entirely different, I shall hear it
without the smallest surprise.
In fact, looking further, I find, it's "an artificial hybrid from
Odont. vexillarium × Odont. Roezlii." That's a staggerer.
But Dend. phalænopsis Schroderæ Dellense is a still bigger
horticultural swaggerer.
O. Coradenei! likewise O. Crispum! I only wish that your
Godmother, Flora,
Would insist upon shorter and more intelligible names for her
modern offspring. By bright Aurora,
I can't go on worshipping at your floral shrine if the ritual is
polyglot gibberish, and what's more, I won't, Ma'am.
In the word (queerly spelt) of which you seem very fond, I
earnestly say, Flower Goddess, Odont. Ma'am!!!

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[Illustration: THE RACE FOR THE COUNTRY. WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL.

(_By Our Americanised Artist._)]

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.

[Illustration: "Standing at Bar."]