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fe TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ORCHIDOLOGY, re 
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Ce year 1908 witnessed the sixteenth Quinquennial Horticultural 
meeting at Ghent, and assumed a special importance because it also 
celebrated the Centenary of the Society’s existence. It was marked by a 
brilliant display of Orchids, the leading features being an exceptionally fine 
miscellaneous group staged by Major G. L. Holford, occuping a space of 
over 300 square feet, and containing many remarkable plants; a brilliant 
group of hybrid Odontoglossums, staged by M, Ch, Vuylsteke, and contain- 
ing about 113 plants, notable among them being O. maculatissimum, 
whose parentage is indicated in its name; and the miscellaneous group of 
M. Firmin Lambeau, which gained the Gold Medal offered by His Majesty, 
the King of the Belgians. There were many other notable exhibits, and 
Dendrobium Bronckartii won the prize for the best new Orchid of recent 
introduction. 
A noteworthy event of the year was the publication of the Orchid Stud- 
Book, including the name, parentage, and references to the literature and 
published figures of all known hybrids up to the end of the previous year, 
with a frontispiece of Calanthe Dominyi, the first hybrid of artificial origin. 
For further details we must refer to the first five pages of our seventeenth 
volume. 
Over a dozen new hybrid Odontoglossums were recorded, and 
Odontioda furnished the striking O. Charlesworthii, with O. keighleyensis, 
O. St.-Fuscien, and O. Thwaitesii, indicating how completely the difficulty 
of raising seedlings in this popular group had been overcome. The generic 
additions were Diacattleya Colmanii and Chondropetalum Fletcheri. 
In 190g further progress was reported, and Miltonioda Lindenii and M. 
Harwoodii were remarkable generic combinations between Miltonia and 
Cochlioda, while Oncidium hybridum was the first artificial hybrid in the 
genus. To the latter the new Certificate of Appreciation for progress was 
awarded, also to Dendrobium atro-Brymerianum, Miltonioda Harwoodii, 
and Odontioda Graireana. Novelties among species included the striking 
Philippine Dendrobium Sandere, Mormodes revolutum, from Peru, and 
Pleurothallis Birchenallii, from ae Cycnoches densiflorum was a 
