THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VOL. Ay JULY, 1903. [No. 127. 
ORCHIDS AT GHENT. 
(Concluded from page 189.) 
WE next called at the establishment of MM. L. de Smet Duvivier 
of Mont St. Amand, and here we found a good and varied collection, 
including a number of interesting little cwrios. M. de Smet, it may be 
added, was the winner in the nurserymen’s class for 75 Orchids, so that 
his best plants were away at the big Show. 
Among the interesting things noted were some good Odontoglossums, 
including forms of O. crispum, O. pulchellum, O. cirrhosum, O. 
sceptrum, ©. mirandum, O. gloriosum, O. Pescatorei, O  polyx- 
anthum, O. Sanderianum, O. X Hallii, O. X Coradinei, and O. Rossii, 
with the allied Mesospinidium sanguineum, and the very rare and interest- 
ing little Bolivian Neodryas Sacciana in good condition. It bears panicles 
of small orange and brown flowers. There were also several plants of 
Cymbidium Lowianum, and a plant of the rare C. grandiflorum with eight 
flowers (the upper one having been fertilised by some means), C. eburneum, 
Lycaste Skinneri, Oncidium Kramerianum, the rare O. unicorne, good 
examples of O. Gardneri, Miltonias cuneata and vexillaria, Promenza 
xanthina, Vanda Amesiana, Lelia Jongheana, L. x Latona, a good 
plant of Dendrobium Kingianum covered with flowers, Zygopetalum 
Mackayi, Masdevallias X Pourbaixii and ignea, Cypripediums X Crethus 
and Dayanum, Epidendrum Stamfordianum and the rare E. polybulbon, 
and some good Cattleyas, as C. Loddigesii, C. X intermedia and c 
Gchieders. Good examples. of the. two latter. were seen carrying 
respectively four and five spikes of flowers. We noted also a plant of 
Brassolelia x Gratrixiz in flower, and some of the commoner things were 
passed over unnoticed. It was interesting to find a collection not entirely 
limited to showy things, and of course there were a good many other 
things not then in flower. 
From there we passed on to the establishment of M. Emile Praet, of 
- Mont St. Amand, and here we found Orchids extensively grown, particularly 
Odontoglossums. M. Praet was the winner of the prize in the nursery- 
men’s class for the best fifty Orchids, also for the best specimen of 
Oncidium Marshallianum, and his plants were particularly well grown. 
