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(Continued from p. 28.) 
works large, complete and durable, which 
Such, Gentlemen, are the Lindenian works, 
Iture, and assure the name of LINDEN 
deserve the knowledge of all the friends of horticu 
a place in history. (Applause.) 
The name has the advantage of recalling good remembrances. We know that among 
historical names, the most brilliant have been borne by men whose works have been 
ephemeral and inauspicious. How much remains of the long tracks traced round the world 
by fantastical conquerors? Time has covered them with dust and their memory is sullied 
by the memories of crimes against right, the liberties of peoples, and by the images of 
sanguinary hecatombs! 
If the name of LINDEN is not surrounded by the palms which are sometimes so falsely 
awarded to military glory, it will at least have the advantage of recalling works durable 
and pacific. In a century, in two and more centuries, the beautiful Orchids with which the 
LINDEN’s have endowed us will still have the blessings of our descendants, and no repulsive 
or painful thought will ever attach to their marvellous lustre. (Applause.) 
Messrs LinDEN, you have heard the applause which has several times interrupted me. 
It can scarcely be directed to my insufficient utterances, and only demonstrates one thing ; 
that is, the glow of sympathy and the recollections with which we are all about to lift our 
glasses in your honour. And when I say this, I do not speak for those alone who are 
united round: this table, I speak also for those innumerable Orchidists which are found 
everywhere, and who appear to me at the present moment to extend and mingle with 
ours and to repeat with us the words with which we now address you : — Thanks, 
Messrs LINDEN, for what you have done for horticulture; Thanks, Gentlemen, for what 
you have done for us. (Prolonged applause.) 
GAWigly EWG A oh box 
Cattleya Rex is certainly a very free-flowering Orchid, and blooming at 
this season, is valuable in many ways. We possess six plants with thirty flowers; 
one is already crossed with Laelia Schilleriana. It is, moreover, a free grower 
and a first-class Cattleya. 
Extract from The Gardeners’ Chronicle, H. Knicut, Laeken. 
August 25. 
: aes August 20. 
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