THE. FETE OF- THE ORCHIDS: 
The 19 of April was really a day of rejoicing for the members of the ORCHIDEENNE, 
in Brussels. At half past ten a. m., the Jury found a splendid collection of Orchids waiting 
for their appreciation and sidetentisa At half past twelve the orchidists assembled to 
celebrate their annual Banquet which was most successful; they then visited the magni- 
ficent Floral nurseries of Messrs Lucien LiInpEN & C°, at Moortebeek, as well as the’ 
remarkable collection of the well-known amateur M. CHarLes VAN WamBEKE. We will 
briefly sketch the different parts of the programme of the day. 
THE MEETING. 
We can only mention the most remarkable species and varieties exhibited, our 
space being limited. 
Amongst the magnificent Odontoglossum, O. crispum calos, with large blood-red 
blotches, a splendid variety; O. x spectabile, large bright-yellow flower, richly spotted; 
O. crisbum meleagris, a wonderful variety with all its divisions blotched and dotted with 
red on a light lilac groud, a very fine round flower; O. crispuim rosewm, a pretty flower, 
admirably coloured; O. Pescatoret guttatum, the three sepals thickly blotched, splendidly 
coloured the petals and the lip slightly blotched; O. miniatwm, enormous blotches, excep- 
tionally dark; O. x concinnum, Wilckeanum genus, magnificent, particularly the blotches. 
All these fine Odontoglossum came from the HorricuLruRE INTERNATIONALE. From 
the same source, Cypripedium Wallisi with its long, light-green, veined, oval pavilion; 
Cattleya Mossiae x Mendeli with its pure white divisions and lip so. distinguished in 
shape and colour; Oncidium sp. nova, the reddish-purple and: yellow colouring of which 
is most effective; Cattleya Mendeli very fine; Cattleya Mendeli eximia; Eulophia congoensis 
bearing some resemblance to the. pink-flowered Calanthe, etc. 
M. Jos. Mogens exhibited some fine Cypripedium, especially C. Stella, C. excelsior, 
C. Charleanum dedicated to M. CHARLES Mapoux. M. PauweELs continues to send us 
beautiful Odontoglossum Rossi majus, of which he possesses a remarkable collection; he 
also exhibited a very fine Odontoglossum Reichenheimi well-flowred and a Cattleya specio- 
sissima of extreme beauty. 
Messrs Lucren Linpen & C? exhibited an interesting series of Odontoglossum 
civrhosum maximum very richly flowered, some Cochlioda vulcanica grandiflora, well 
deserving their last name, and a group of very beautiful Cattleya Trianae, etc. 
M* TuHompson sent a fine Cattleya Lawrenceana, an Odontoglossum sceptrum var. 
argus and a Cattleya Skinnert Thompson’s var.; M. Warocoué an Oncidium ampliatum 
majus, a gigantic specimen with thirty flower-spikes. 
We may further mention Catileya Trianae var. Schulziana belonging to M. _Joun 
ScHuLz, Cattleya Skinnert var. oculata from M, Canuzac, Catileva Mendeli from Messts 
DALLEMAGNE & C°, Cypripedium Rothschildianum and Odontoglossum Wambekeanum from 
M. VAN WAMBEKE; Odontoglosswm polvxantum from M. Capartr; Polycycnis muscifera and 
Nanodes Mantini from M. E. Liprecut, Paris. 
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