THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. XXI.] APRIL, 1913: [No. 244. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
THE great event of the coming month. will be the Quinquennial 
International Horticultural Exhibition to be held at Ghent from April 
26th to May 4th. Ghent has long been famous for its Quinquennial 
Exhibitions, but the one of 1913 forms part of a much larger Exhibition, 
which will remain open for several months. The Horticultural Palace will 
be a permanent building about a ‘third larger than the Crystal Palace, and 
covers a site of seven acres, in the centre of the Town Park, an extent of 
nearly ninety acres of well-wooded picturesque country. As already 
announced, eighty-nine classes are devoted to Orchids, and a very fine show 
is anticipated, in which Belgian, French, and German exhibitors, with 
some of our leading nurserymen, will take part. Among. other interesting 
classes we may mention that Gold Medals are offered for collections 
demonstrating the favourable influence of symbiotic fungi in the germination 
of Orchids, also to nurserymen for the greatest number of hybrids raised in 
their establishment, together with their parents. 
Apart from the constant stream of hybrids, several very interesting and 
handsome Orchids have appeared at recent meetings of the R.H.S. On 
March 4th a fine spike of Eulophiella Peetersiana, with seventeen flowers 
and buds, was exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., and a fortnight 
later a plant of the original E. Elisabethz was staged in a choice group 
shown by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., together with well-grown examples 
of Phaius tuberculosus and simulans. It was interesting to see how distinct 
the two latter are in habit and yet how closely they resemble each other 
in the shape, colour, and markings of the flowers, a resemblance which 
enabled one of them to masquerade under the name of the other undetected 
for many years. It may be remembered what a discussion the appearance 
of the original plant of Thouars caused on its appearance in gardens for the 
first time some twelve years ago. We believe the plant was soon lost, and 
the present one came from a new HS ae 
The malicious destruction of a lot of valuable Orchids at Kew was. 
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