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purpurata has yielded two or three free-flowering hybrids’of novel colour. 
Sophrolelia heatonensis, the hybrid with Sophronitis grandiflora, is a 
charming little plant, but the combinations with Epidendrum are not of 
much account, the small flowers and different shape of the latter, and in the 
case of E. radicans the straggling habit, not forming a good combination. 
The hybrid with Brassavola Digbyana is more promising, while Brasso- 
catlzlia Veitchii, in which the characters of L. purpurata and Brassocattleya 
Veitchii are combined, is remarkably handsome. It is perhaps here and 
among the secondary hybrids of the Cattleya labiata group that further 
developments may be expected. 
Leeliocattleya Freak is remarkable for having almost the habit of 
Cattleya citrina, with greenish yellow sepals and petals and a whitish lip 
striped with purple. It might be interesting to re-cross it with the Cattleya. 
ORCHIDS AT BRUSSELS. 
M. FIRMIN LAMBEAU’sS COLLECTION. 
ORCHID culture in Belgium, as elsewhere, is advancing with rapid strides, 
and the magnificent group for which M. Firmin Lambeau was awarded the 
King’s prize at the recent Ghent Quinquennial Exhibition will long be 
remembered, A few days later we had the pleasure of seeing the collection 
itself, and now propose to describe a few of its leading features, though the 
difficulty of giving an adequate account of such a fine collection in the space 
at disposal necessitates the suppression of many interesting details. Like 
many others, the collection had a small beginning. M. Lambeau began 
to grow Orchids in 1897, a few plants then finding a home among 
-miscellaneous greenhouse subjects. The arrangement was temporary, and 
a year later a Cool house was built for Odontoglossums, which was followed 
by another for Cattleyas and others requiring a warmer climate. The 
results were favourable, and the collection grew until eighteen houses of 
various kinds were successively built. M. Lambeau then moved from 
Chateau Precklinden to his present residence, Villa Vogelsang, near 
Brussels, where he has built an entirely new set of houses on the latest 
principles. 
These houses are ten in number, and their dimensions twenty-two 
metres long by three and a-quarter wide. They are disposed right and left 
of a centre corridor some six metres wide, the total area being about 1000 
square metres. The houses are arranged with a central path and side 
stages, and ventilated by a system of gearing fixed in the central corridor. 
The heating is by means of two central boilers, each of which can be 
isolated by means of valves in case of accident. The potting shed and 
general workroom is situated at the end of the corridor, so that everything 
«an be done without taking the plants outside. 
