314 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Ocroper, 1972+ 
many errors of treatment. The plant in Mr. Phipp’s collection shows much 
evidence of being in a healthy and vigorous condition, doubtless through 
his careful attention. 
ORCHID HUNTING IN SOUTH AMERICA. 
. several previous occasions interesting articles have been contributed 
to these pages by Mr. J. J. Keevil, notably those on Brazilian Orchids 
(Orch. Rev., xvii., p. 98, and xvill., p. 28). From a recent communication 
we learn that Mr. Keevil left Santos in 1916 and spent three years at 
Manaos, 1,000 miles up the Amazon, on the Equator. He had a motor- 
boat of his own called Lelia, in which he could sleep and cook comfortably- 
He writes: ‘At high river, May-September, the forest gets flooded up to 
twenty miles from the banks. Trees, fifty feet in height, are submersed for 
months, but being used to it, suffer no damage. It is then easy to cruise 
amongst the tree-tops and gather Cattleya Eldorado, Oncidium Lanceanum, 
Schomburgkia crispa, etc., but the equatorial Orchids cannot vie with those 
of Central and South Brazil. Duck shooting is good when the river 1s 
falling. There are two species, both with spurs on their feet to enable them 
to roost and nest in the trees! Occasionally, to retrieve one it is a question 
of racing an alligator, whose taste for duck flesh renders him indifferent 
both to curses and No. 1 shot. Fishing is fair and productive of surprises. 
‘‘ Whilst in Manaos I met several times Kramer. He was a genuine 
lover of Orchids, and had collected them for 50 years. I gave him some 
C. labiata, which he had never seen. He had great pleasure in flowering 
them some two years ago just before he died. After Manaos, I had six 
months in Rio Grande do Sul, in the extreme south of Brazil. Too cold 
for Orchids, but hard to beat for fishing and snipe shooting ; seven once fell 
to one cartridge!” 
GHENT QUINQUENNIAL EXHIBITION OF 1923.—The Organising Com- 
mittee appeals to horticulturists to prepare their exhibits for this 
demonstration of horticultural art. The programme of the exhibition, 
which comprises no fewer than 778 classes, will be sent on receipt of a 
request addressed to ‘‘ Palais de l’Horticulture et des Fétes, Ghent, 
Belgium.” An advertising stamp to affix on correspondence has been 
prepared. The wording is in English, Flemish and French, and the design 
represents the three principal towers in the centre of the city of Ghent. 
Copies of these will be sent to anyone interested, on request. The XVIIIth 
Quinquennial Exhibition, organised by the Royal Agricultural and Botanical 
Society of Ghent, the oldest on the Continent, promises to surpass its 
predecessors, which for more than a century have followed the progress of 
horticulture. 
