THE ORCHID REVIEW. 137 
ORCHIDS AT GHENT. 
ORcHIDs formed a very prominent feature in the programme of the recent 
Quinquennial Horticultural Exhibition at Ghent, prizes being offered in 
no less than seventy-three classes, but as it proved in the sequel there were 
exhibits in only twenty-two of them, and as in several cases there was 
no competition, the work of the jury was rather light. In fact there was 
a general concensus of opinion that while the Show generally was an 
improvement on the preceding one, the Orchids showed a decided falling 
off in point of numbers, though the quality in most cases was well main 
tained. The Jury met at 9 a.m. on April 15th, and after an address of 
welcome from Count de Kerchove, the President of the Society, proceded 
to their labours. Two sections were devoted to Orchids (taking them in 
order of the official list) as follows :—Section Three ; M. Madoux, President, 
Dr. Capart, Secretary, and Messrs. R. A. Rolfe, L. Duval, G. Mantin, and 
G. Warocque. Section Four; Mr. J. O’Brien, President, M. Martin 
Cahuzac, Secretary, and Messrs. A. Cogniaux, L. Grosjean, and A. Wincqz. 
The following is the result of the competition :— 
The Gold Medal offered by H. M. the King of the Belgians, for the best 
and most varied one-hundred exotic Orchids was won by M. G. Vincke- 
Dujardin, of Bruges (the only competitor), with a splendid group of well- 
cultivated plants, the Odontoglossums being specially good. It included 
various fine forms of Odontoglossum crispum and O. X Andersonianum, 
O. X Wilckeanum sulfureum, O. cirrhosum, O. X elegans, O. hastilabium, 
O. polyxanthum, some good O. Pescatorei, O. Hallii, &c., Eulophiella 
Elisabethz, Cattleya Schilleriana, very fine C. Schroeder, C. intermedia, 
C. i. Parthenia, C. Lawrenceana superba, Zygopetalum X Perrenoudi, 
Ada aurantiaca, Epiphronitis x Veitchii, Angraecum Sanderianum, Lelia 
harpophylla, Miltonia xX Bleuana nobilior, a fine Masdevallia ignea with 
over fifty flowers, M. x Chelsoni, the striking Oncidium spilopterum, 
O. superbiens, the rare O. Cavendishianum with a good panicle of flowers, 
OQ. Harrisonianum, Cymbidium X  eburnec-Lowianum, Cypripedium 
Rothschildianum, the rare C. Druryi, Lycaste Skinneri alba, and other 
good things which we have not space to enumerate. 
The prize (Objet d’art, value five-hundred francs) offered i the Count 
de Germiny for the best one-hundred Orchids, to be judged solely from 
a horticultural standpoint, was unanimously awarded to M. A. Peeters, of 
Brussels (again the only competitor) for a superb group, excellent alike for 
quality, good culture, and tasteful arrangement, which it would have been 
difficult to surpass anywhere. Conspicuous in the group were half-a-dozen 
excellent examples of the richly-coloured Zygopetalum Perrenoudi, Phaius 
-» Norman, P. x N. roseus, P. x N. aureus, P. X Cooksoni, Cochlioda 
