206 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
free to follow their own inclinations, which consisted chiefly in visiting 
various horticultural establishments, in describing which we shall confine 
ourselves strictly to Orchids. 
The first establishment visited was that of M. A. Van Imschoot, of 
Mont St. Amand, which is remarkable for its representative character and 
the large number of botanical rarities it contains. Numerous interesting 
things were in flower, but it must be remembered that the pick of the 
collection were away at the Show—a group of ninety different kinds— 
consequently our notes were less numerous than they would otherwise 
have been. Some of those exhibited, however, were here in duplicate, 
and we were much interested in looking over a number of those not in 
flower, including a few uniques and many which are found in very few 
other collections. M. Van Imschoot’s houses are also well adapted to 
the purpose, and we saw numerous examples of successful culture. 
A plant of Vanilla Pompona, usually cultivated under its later name of 
V. lutescens, bearing some of its very fleshy triquetrous fruits, was a very 
interesting sight. Epidendrum Pseudepidendrum is very rarely met with, 
but its scarlet lip forms a very striking contrast with the rest of the 
flower, which is green. Elleanthus capitatus was another rarity in flower, 
and near it were several species of Sobralia. A fine specimen of 
Grammatophyllum speciosum might also be seen, but this, of course, not 
in flower. Showy Orchids included Miltonia vexillaria, Ada aurantiaca, 
many different species of Odontoglossum, various Masdevallias, Vandas, 
Dendrobiums, Cattleyas, and examples of various other genera which we 
have not space to enumerate. Altogether, we retain very pleasant 
recollections of the time spent with M. Van Imschoot, who takes the 
greatest interest in his collection, and has, moreover, a very useful 
library relating to his favourites. 
The collection of M. Jules Hye-Leysen is situated in the Coupure, 
not far from the Exhibition, though he was not showing there, and 
consequently we found a fine display of flowers in his Orchid houses. 
The Odontoglossums, to which two houses were devoted, were particularly 
good, both as to quality and culture, and among the more striking things 
noted we may mention a magnificent form of O. triumphans with a spike 
of eleven flowers, a good QO. t. aureum, a brilliant O. Cervantesii roseum, 
some excellent examples of O. X Wilckeanum, one of them being very 
clear and bright in its colours, O. crispum Wrigleyanum, O. c. Hyeanum, 
the richly-coloured O. c. augustum (in bud), an excellent O. xX 
macrospilum with a spike of ten flowers, O. x excellens, in short, a 
series of excellent examples of all the the typical species of the season. 
The Masdevallia house contained some well-cultivated plants, those in 
flower including some good examples of M. Veitchiana grandiflora, 
