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The corresponding prize for Nurserymen fell to M. Vincke-Dujardin, of 
Bruges, whose group contained good examples of Phalenopsis amabilis, 
Dendrobium thyrsifloruam, Miltonia vexillaria, M. Warscewiczii, M. 
cuneata, some good Masdevallias, &c., the whole collection being in fine 
condition. ; 
For thirty Cool Orchids M. Vincke-Dujardin also secured the first prize, 
the group containing some fine Odontoglossums, among which a good 
O. X cuspidatum was noted, also examples of Coelogyne cristata alba, 
Restrepia striata, and the usual spring-flowering species. 
The class for the best collection of hybrid Orchids also brought only a 
single competitor, M. Peeters, of Brussels, whose group would have taken 
some beating. It contained beautiful examples of Cattleya x calummata, 
xX Louis Chaton, xX resplendens, Lelio-cattleya x Choletiana, X 
highburiensis, X Kerchovie, eximia, X Mrs. John Leemann, x Imperatrice 
de Russie, X Fanyauana, Lelia x, Latona, flava, x purpurato-Digbyana, 
Epiphronitis xX Veitchii, Miltonia Xx Bleuana, Odontoglossum X 
bellatulum, x Rolfeze, and several others, Phaius x Norman and Opoixii, 
Zygocolax xX Veitchii, Zygopetalum Perrenoudi, &c., some of them in 
several examples. 
The Silver Medal offered for the best generic hybrid was gained by 
_M. De Bievre, gardener to His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Laeken, 
with Lezelio-cattleya x Prince Leopold, a hybrid from Lelia cinnabarina 
and Cattleya quadricolor (chocoensis), in fine condition. 
The prize for the best collection of Guatemalan and Colombian Orchids 
went to M. Verdonck, of Gendbrugge, whose group contained Ada 
aurantiaca, Epidendrum atropurpureum, and Pelexia olivacea, with about 
ten species of Odontoglossum, six of Oncidium, three each of Cattleya and 
Miltonia, and two each of Lycaste and Masdevallia. Of the rarer kinds 
may be mentioned Oncidium leucochilum and O. maculatum. 
The Nurserymen’s class for 25 species of the Cypripedium group brought 
three competitors, M. Pynaert, of Ghent, being placed first, M. Maes- 
Braeckman, of Mont-St.-Amand, second, and Messrs. Janssens and Putzeys, 
of Merxem, Antwerp, third. The more noteworthy plants in the premier 
group were C. callosum Sandere, C. insigne Sandere, a good C. X 
Sallieri Hyeanum with six flowers, C. hirsutissimum with five, C. X 
Thompsoni-Rothschildianum, C. x aureum virginale, and C. xX nitens 
Sanderianum, but the majority were both well grown and flowered. In the 
second group we noted good examples of C. X Harrisianum violaceum, C- 
x Fascinator, C. X regale, a good C. X Sallieri, C. villosum grandiflorum, 
and C. aureum virginale ; and in the third group, C. Argus Moensii, C. X 
Goweri, C. Lawrenceanum with fifteen flowers, C. x Mephisto, C. X 
Madame Osterrieth (superbiens X callosum), C. x Mrs. E.G. Uihlein, and ~ 
