17° THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1916. 
sand, and is in thriving condition. A third photograph shows a fine plant 
of Cymbidium Tracyanum bearing two spikes. It is potted in a mixture of 
turf and peat, and grows in a Cool greenhouse all the year round. All of 
them are excellent examples of good culture. 
ORCHIDS AT THE BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL SHOW. 
THE first of the series of Horticultural Shows in connection with the 
Brussels International Exhibition was held at the Exhibition grounds, 
Brussels, from April 30th to May 3rd, and brought together a fine display 
of Orchids, about sixteen Medals being awarded. The exhibits were from 
Belgium, England, and France, and the plants were staged on a raised 
platform, about 300 feet long, in one of the temporary buildings, which was 
lighted and warmed by hot water pipes. 
A magnificent group of 200 plants was staged by M. Firmin Lambeau, 
Brussels, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. The hybrid Odonto- 
glossums were specially noteworthy, and included several fine forms of O. 
x Lambeauianum, O. X armainvillierense xanthotes, some good forms of 
O. X eximium, a particularly fine O. crispum with a large blotch on each 
segment, O. ramosissimum bearing a large branched spike, a number of 
unnamed seedlings, a fine Odontioda Bradshawiz, Miltonia X Bleuana 
grandiflora, the handsome M. vexillaria memoria G. D. Owen, Dendrobium 
Bronckartii, Zygopetalum x Perrenoudii, some fine examples of Cattleya 
Lawrenceana and Mendelii, Cattleya Schroeder Queen Alexandra, the 
chaste C. Warneri alba, two good C. intermedia alba, carrying twenty-one 
flowers, Lzliocattleya Firminii, the colour of the flowers being a mixture of 
apricot and gold, the handsome Brassocattleya Leemanniz, Cypripedium X 
Maudie, C. x Rolfei, C. x gigas Corndeanii, C. X aureum Pomone, and 
various other good things. 
M. Ch. Dietrich, Brussels, obtained a Gold Medal as the first prize for a 
group of fifty Orchids, limited’ to amateurs, among his best plants being 
Odontioda Lambeauiana, and a very fine O. Bradshawie, Renanthera 
Imschootiana, Phalznopsis:amabilis Rimestadiana, Brassocattleya Veitchii 
and Thorntoni, a fine dark form of Miltonia vexillaria, M. xX Bleuana, 
forms of Cattleya Triane, Mendelii and Schroederze, some good Odonto- 
glossum crispum, &c. 
In asimilar class for Nurserymen, Messrs. Duchesne et. Lanthoine, 
Watermael, Brussels, obtained the Gold Medal, with felicitations of the 
Jury, for an excellent group, including a magnificent plant of Vanda coerulea 
bearing spikes of twenty-five and thirty very large and richly-coloured flowers, 
Odontioda Devossiana and Charlesworthii, O. Cassiope, Odontoglossum X 
Thompsonianum, O. X armainvillierense, O. X Fletcherianum, O. X 
Fascinator nobilior, Miltonia vexillaria virginalis, M. v. gigantea, and 
