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In a corresponding class for Nurserymen, the prize was won by MM. 
Th. Pauwels & Cie., Meirelbeke, with a fine group. 
For the most beautiful Cattleya M. Firmin Lambeau was first, with C. 
Comet var. Rutilant, a deep purple form, with a darker zone of colour 
round the front of the lip, and the throat orange-brown. The second prize 
went to Count Joseph de Hemptinne, St.-Denis, for C. Van Houtte 
{Warscewiczii X Rothschildiana), a very promising hybrid. 
In the class for Leeliocattleyas or allied hybrids, M. Firmin Lambeau 
was first, with Brassocattleya Dietrichiana albescens, having cream-white 
sepals and petals, and the lip yellow with a rosy margin. 
For the most beautiful group of Miltonia vexillaria, the Gold Medal 
was awarded:to M. Charles Dietrich, Anderghem, with felicitations, his 
group containing a varied and beautiful display of well-flowered plants. 
For the best Miltonia vexillaria or hybrid of the genus, the Silver-gilt 
Medal was also won by M. Ch. Dietrich, with a beautiful plant of M. 
vexillaria memoria G. D. Owen. 
For the most beautiful group of Phalzwnopsis the Gold Medal was 
awarded to M. M. Verdonck, with felicitations, the group containing a 
series of well-grown plants of P. amabilis, bearing about forty-five spikes. 
For the most beautiful group of Dendrobiums the Gold Medal was won 
by MM. Th. Pauwels & Cie, the group containing fine examples of D. 
Bronckartii, Phalaenopsis, Sandere, acuminatum, and others. 
For the most beautiful group of Cypripedes the Gold Medal was won by 
M. De Meter, Meirelbeke, with a good group. 
For the best and most varied group of Guatemalan Orchids, the Silver-) 
gilt Medal was won by MM. Van de Putte et Cie., Ledeberg, their group 
including good examples of Odontoglossum. grande, Uroskinneri and var. 
album, Epidendrum nemorale and fragrans, Lycaste Skinneri, and others. 
An Objet d’Art, value 200. francs, was offered by M. Francis Spae, 
General Secretary of the Society, forthe best group of plants imported and 
put into commerce by the late Louis Van Houtte. This was awarded 
unanimously, and with the felicitations of the Jury, to the Société Anonyme 
Van Houtte Pére, whose group included several interesting Orchids. 
A good plant of Vanilla planifolia variegata was exhibited by the 
Societé Horticole Gantoise, to whom the Gold Medal, offered by His 
Majesty the King of the Belgians for a group of forty stove plants, was 
awarded. 
In a group of new plants not in commerce, for which Messrs. Sander 
& Sons, Bruges, gained the first prize, were included Brassocattleya 
amabilis and Odontioda Hemptinneana. 
Non-CoOMPETITIVE EXHIBITS. 
M. Jules Hye de Crom, Coupure, Ghent, was awarded an Objet d’Art- 
