SEPTEMBER, 1913. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 271 
‘The two Leliocattleyas mentioned were raised in the collection, and 
there is a lot of seedlings. C. Harrisoniana has been crossed with nearly 
all the species of the labiata group, and some of them have flowered. C. 
Harrisoniana X Schrceedere is a pretty pink hybrid with some yellow on 
the disc. C. granulosa x Warscewiczii is also thought much of. 
Cattleyas are extensively grown, houses being largely devoted to C. 
Trianz, C. Gaskelliana, and C. Harrisoniana, while another contains various 
choice varieties, all in vigorous health, and we noticed many with double 
breaks. It may be added that M. Delanghe does not care to see the roots 
outside the compost, where he thinks they are not getting enough nutriment. 
Oncidium splendidum is grown in quantity, strong, sturdy plants, with 
clean healthy leaves, in some cases over ten inches long, and the compost 
apparently very dry. There were also many O. varicosum and a few O. 
sarcodes, with sturdy plants of O. macranthum. A house of Odontoglossum 
crispum and Pescatorei contained many plants in spike or bloom. The 
plants were grown on a bed of cinders, but do not compare with the others 
in point of vigour. One house contained Vanda ceerulea*and Odonto- 
glossums, while another was largely devoted to Cypripedium insigne, with 
QO. crispum at the end. 
It was very interesting to see the original home of a method of culture 
that has been so much discussed, and if any lesson was learnt it is that 
everything depends upon the watering. Probably M. Delanghe could grow 
Orchids in the more orthodox composts, but at least he has learnt how to 
use leaf-mould as a substitute, with a good deal of success. Perhaps the 
method is not one for ordinary mortals—it is too much like conjuring. 
BRUSSELS BOTANIC GARDEN. 
A fine collection of Orchids is grown at the Brussels Botanic Garden, for 
not only are three houses set apart for their culture, but others are grown 
in an ecologic collection, where they are grown with aroids, ferns, and 
various other epiphytes, on trunks and branches of trees to imitate the way 
they occur in nature, and besides these a lot of Congo Orchids, with a few 
Malayan species, are grown with ordinary stove plants, where they thrive 
exceedingly. 
Many interesting things were in bloom in the general collection, where 
we noticed a fine example of Gongora bufonia with three spikes, G. galeata, 
Lycaste aromatica and xytriophora, Dendrobium fimbriatum oculatum and 
Brymerianum, the rare Acanthophippium sylhetense, Sarcanthus pallidus, 
a fine plant of Cymbidium Lowianum, Mormolyce lineolata, Epidendrum 
variegatum and ionosmum, Ccelia Baueriana, a fine plant of Physosiphon 
Lindleyi, Lelia majalis, the rare Acineta Hrubyana in spike, and many 
others, including some of the more familiar species which we did not \note. 
Oncidium was represented by examples of O. flexuosum, Gardneri, concolor, 
