PL. DL-DLI. 
CATTLEYA LABIATA tpt. VARIETATES. 
1. ARDENS. 4. LUCIENNE. 
2. MOORTEBEEKIENSIS. 5. MELUSINE. 
3. ALBO-MARGINATA. 6. FLAMBOYANTE. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 15. 
Cattleya labiata. Vide Lindenia, Ill, p. 35. 
‘= he beautiful varieties shown on the accompanying double plate possess 
PE ay an interest in a certain sense historic since they recall an agreable 
=H event to the numerous Belgian and foreign amateurs who found them- 
es at Brussels on Oct. 25, 1896. They have, in fact, been chosen from 
the group of Cattleya labiata (Warocqueana) which bore away the palm in the 
Franco-Belgian contest which took place on that day. 
The history of this contest is interesting, and may well serve as a precedent 
for future ones which under well-defined regulations would present more interest 
than many of the ordinary exhibitions. 
M. Lucien Linpen, with whom the idea of the contest originated, had first 
of all proposed it to the Ghent amateurs consequent upon a kind of challenge 
formulated in a letter signed “ Un vrai Gantois ” and inserted in the Fournal des 
Orchidées of Sept. 1°. 
The gauntlet not having been taken up, M. A. Dattemacne of Rambouillet, 
wrote on Oct. 3, urging M. Lucien Linpen to resume the idea, and proposed 
to him a competition between the establishments at Rambouillet and Moortebeek, 
each to exhibit twelve Cattleya labiata. The competition was arranged to take 
place alternately at Brussels and Rambouillet, and the merits only of the varieties 
were to decide. The plants at Moortebeek were but recently imported, and had 
only been eight months in cultivation, whilst the houses at Rambouillet contained 
magnificent specimens which had been established for years. 
The first trial took place on Oct. 25" at Brussels in the gallery of the 
Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, which is the usual meeting place of the 
OrcuipEenneE. The appointed judges were those of this Society, and included 
MM. Cu. Van Wamsexe, Miteau, De Lomparrve, Luspers, Cu. De BosscHERE, 
chevalier DE Warany, pu Trev DE TEerponcKk and Vassgur and they awarded 
the prize to the Moortebeek collection. 
The second trial took place at Rambouillet on Nov. 7" and the judges, 
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