Jury-Aucust, 1919.]° THE ORCHID REVIEW. 109 
ORCHIDS IN BELGIUM. 
T page 99 we mentioned a set of four photographs of the destruction of 
M. Th. Pauwels’ Orchid Nursery at Meirelbeke, on November 8th, 1918, 
and now we are able to give an illustration of the large Cattleya house, 
which justifies the remark that it is a picture of desolation, part of the roof 
aed stage wrecked, the glass fallen in, the front slabs broken, and the plants 
lying about in all directions where they were thrown by the concussion. 
Fie. 8. CATTLEYA HOUSE DESTROYED AT MEIRELBEKE. 
as 84 X 64 inches in size, and we selected part of 
it, giving the details exact size, in preference to reproducing the whole, which 
would have involved a great loss in detail. No more graphic record could 
be given. This house was 30 metres long by 7 wide. A second photograph 
represents a seedling Cattleya house, and here the roof is wrecked, the 
plants thrown about, and the floor covered with broken glass and other 
debris. The wreck of a large Odontoglossum house might almost be 
but here the rafters are more 
The photograph received w 
described in the same terms, blown in on one 
