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The lip is creamy white, spotted with dark purple at the base, and is delicately 
poised at the tip of the foot of the column, the balance Deineaecet by the 
fleshy basal lobes. It moves backwards and forwards with the slighest touch, 
an arrangement evidently connected with the fertilisation of the flowers by 
insects. R. A. Rotre. 
A NEW CONSERVATORY AT « L’HORTICULTURE INTERNATIONALE » 
(Linpen), Brussels. — A very pleasing transformation has been effected in this 
large Brussels establishment. An extensive building directly contiguous to the 
entrance has been laid out, with the object of providing a permanent exhibition 
of orchids in flower. The plants are arranged on either side on large stages. 
The walls are covered with an elegant trellis work adorned with climbing plants, 
Aristolochias, Passifloras, Bomarias, etc. This compact annex, filled with 
Cattleya aurea, Eldorado, gigas (from a large importation received some months 
ago), guttata, granulosa, Cypripediums, divers Odontoglossums, Dendrobiums, 
Vanda coerulea, Oncidiums, etc., presents a splendid sight and calls forth the 
admiration of all visitors. They have been specially installed here in order to 
enable visitors from a distance, whose time is limited, to examine the principal 
novelties or rarities in flower without being obliged to devote at each visit many 
hours to go through all the houses. 
On the other hand it was necessary to provide a place for importations, 
without encroachment on other space. For these a part of the old potting-shed, 
over 150 feet long, has been absorbed. This part is now filled with a large stage, 
and forms an immense house of exceptional size, in which are lodged about 
10,000 newly imported Orchids. The work, preparation of compost, repot- 
ting, etc., is now done in another part of the establishment set apart for this 
purpose. 
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