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belonging to Baron Scuréper, which has held the sates hitherto. The enthusiasm 
it excited is indescribable. Hardly was it unpacked and placed, when offers — 
of purchase were made : 200 guineas were immediately offered to me for it; 
then a dozen amateurs went up to 250 guineas, and four (amongst them the 
horticulturist, Mr. BackHousr of York) went up to 300 guineas. I had promised 
Mr. JuLes Hye, ‘of Ghent, who had made me the first offer, to let him have 
it at the highest price offered; therefore our great Belgian amateur is the happy 
owner of it. I must add that, before the end of this memorable day, I was asked 
to offer 50 guineas profit to Mr. JuLes Hye, if he would give sail the plant, offer 
that he declined without hesitation. 
“ This price of 300 guineas is the. highest sum paid hitherto for an 
Odontoglossum. It is almost double the price O. apiatum was sold for. 
“ Every honour was shown to O. augustum in London : hardly had their 
Royal Highnesses the Prince and. Princess of Watzs, accompanied by their 
Royal: Highnesses the Princess Vicroria and the Princess Maup, and his Royal 
Highness the Prince CHartes of Denmark, arrived at the “ Temple Show , 
than they asked to see our group, and they greatly admired our “ champion , 
‘and warmly congratulated us for bringing “ such a marvel , to London. 
“ We may, three of us, heartly congratulate ourselves : Messrs. DALLE- 
macne & C°, for having cultivated it and for having had the honour of its flowering 
for the first time in Europe; the Horricurrure Inrernationate, for having 
introduced it with the splendid varieties which have flowered recently, as well 
as for the exhibiting and the selling of it; finally, Mr. Jutys Hye, for being able 
to add the brightest of jewels to his incomparable collection of Odontoglossum. , 
These enthusiastic appreciations are corroborated by the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
the first horticultural publication in the whole world which, in the May number, 
p- 655, thus begins the description of this variety : “ Messrs. LINDEN, of the 
Horricurture Internationate, have brilliantly maintained the honour of their 
Establishment by exhibiting the Sinest oe blotched with rich crimson-purple 
that has ever been seen. , 
- A. CoGniaux. 
