M' THompson, amateur, from Stone (England), presided the Jury; M. CAHUZAC 
from Bordeaux, performed the office of secretary. 
THE BANQUET. 
The Banquet at which nearly all the principal Orchidists in Belgium attended, 
included among its guests the president and secretary of the Jury, as well as the 
« Father of Orchids » M. JEAN LinpEex, who, when the time for the toasts came, was 
honoured with great enthusiasm. M. Lucien Linpen partook of the honours of the 
day with his respected Father. It would be ungrateful to omit the name of D* Caparr, 
the soul of these friendly gatherings, who superintended the gastronomic part with an 
art quite unlooked for in an illustrious physician. 
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MESSRS LINDEN & C°. 
This Establishment, of which we will give a further description later on, has 
literally astonished the visitors. All declared, that no other establishment could be 
compared with it. Everything is admirably conceived, the system for the ventilation, 
light, heating, the interior distribution, the communication between the differents parts, 
nothing has been neglected, everything has been executed in the most intelligent way. 
The forty thousand Odontoglossum, the thousands of Cattleya, Cypripedium and other 
plants, grow there with surprising vigour. When all the plants are in full vegetation, 
a visit to this Establishment will be quite a treat for the Orchidist as for the simple 
amateur of beautiful flowers. 
AT M. VAN WAMBEKE’S. 
The garden and hot-houses, everything here shows the lover of nature. If M. VAn 
WamBEKE has a fine collection of Orchids, if he understands them throughly, he is 
none the less fond of other kinds of plants, as we may judge by his splendid collections 
of Cineraires and Auriculas. To this affection for pretty flowers, be they what they may, 
M. VAN WAMBEKE joins a precious quality, the communicative sincerity of his enthusiasm; 
he is a friend who receives with cordiality and possesses the art of proposing a toast 
to the Orchidists who assembled at his house on the 19" of April, a day that will be 
long-remembered by all. 
