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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
[August, 1921. 
occasions an Eastern grass arrived dead, but the following attempt met 
with success. As many as 23 collectors were at one time employed in 
different parts of the world. Auction sales were held in London, the largest 
provincial towns, and in America. A single sale has contained as many as 
20,000 Orchids. 
Having completed the St. Albans’ nursery, a branch business was 
organised at Summit, New Jersey, U.S.A., and placed under the manage¬ 
ment of Mr. Fostermann, a former collector, and later under Mr. A. 
DimmOfek. Eventually, when found to be too far-distant,:it wasacquired by 
Messrs. Lager & Hurrell, who still maintain it as an Orchid nursery. In 
1886 the authoritative work, “ Reichenbachia,” with life-size coloured 
illustrations, was published by Mr. Sander, many of the articles being 
-personally supervised by him. 
Still restless, Mr. Sander, in 1894, commenced building a nursery at St. 
Andre, Bruges, Belgium. In 1914 this had developed into an enormous 
-concern with 250 houses, about 50 of which were devoted to Orchids, the 
.culture of Vanda ccerulea, Phalaenopses, Dendrobium superbiens, Laelia 
-Gouldiana and Cymbidium Sanderi being especially successful, while great 
strides were made in the growing and breeding of Odontoglossums. The 
•Orchid section alone formed a comparatively large nursery, but the 
remaining houses covered more than four times the area, and contained huge 
-quantities of palms, azaleas, dracaenas, and araucarias, while outside a 
stock of 'go,ooo trimmed bays, from miniatures, to giants, rhododendrons, 
hardy azaleas, begonias, etc., were grown. His collectors penetrated all 
parts of the globe to which Orchids are indigenous, and the two nurseries 
acted as clearing houses to all countries. 
Mr. Sander’s successes at the leading European and American Horti¬ 
cultural Exhibitions gained for him a world-wide reputation. He was one of 
the original holders of the Victorian ?dedal of Horticulture, and held several 
foreign orders, including that of the Croen of Belgium. He was a baron of 
the Russian Empire, and as head of the firm he won the French President’s 
Prix d’Honneur in Paris, the Veitchian Cup in 1906, the Coronation 
■Challenge Cup in 1913, 41 Gold Medals, 24 Silver Cups, as well as Medals 
and Diplomas by the hundred. In International Exhibitions at London, 
Edinburgh, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Paris, Petrograd, Moscow, Florence, 
Milan, New York, Chicago and St. Louis he won Gold Medals and highest 
awards. At each Ghent quinquennial his new plants were amongst the 
leading attractions to horticulturists from all parts of the world. His 
personality was felt by all who came in contact with him. Genial to all, 
and enthusiastic where plants were concerned, it was a pleasure to speak 
with him on Orchids, and especially interesting and instructive when he 
-could be induced to give personal reminiscences of the struggles to obtain 
