148 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1908, 
Eighty-two classes were devoted to Orchids, but in many cases there 
were no exhibits, and there were only twenty-seven cases in which awards 
were made, and in several of these only a single group was exhibited. It 
was noticeable that the award of a Gold Medal for a collection of the most 
numerous species of Orchids did not attract a single exhibitor. Some sterling 
groups, however, were staged not for competition, particularly a remarkably 
fine group sent by Major G. L. Holford, and a marvellous group of hybrid 
Odontoglossum from M. Ch. Vuylsteke, by far the finest which has ever 
been exhibited. The non-competitive groups counterbalanced to a great 
extent the small number of entries in the other class, and the general 
opinion was that the Orchids staged were superior to anything yet staged at 
Ghent. We may take the competitive groups first. 
The Gold Medal offered by His Majesty the King of the Belgians, for 
the best and most varied collection of Orchids, limited to Amateurs, was won 
by M. Firmin Lambeau, of Brussels, with a remarkably fine group, which 
occupied the whole of the central stage at one end of the gallery. It 
contained a beautiful series of Odontoglossums, Cattleyas, Miltonias, hybrids 
of Brassavola Digbyana, and numerous other fine things, specially note- 
worthy among them being the charming forms of Odontoglossum X 
Lambeauianum, Helleputianum and La Tribune, both of excellent shape 
and very handsomely blotched, O. crispum coloratum, O. c. eminens, and 
O. c. Madouxianum, three very richly coloured forms, some good O. X 
ardentissimum, O. X exultans, O. xX Notteanum (Wilckeanum X 
loochristiense), a bright yellow, well-spotted flower, most like the latter, some 
pretty forms of O. X Adriane, a good Odontioda heatonensis, very fine 
specimens of Cochlioda Neetzliana, C. vulcanica, and C. rosea, with 
numerous racemes, noble examples of the large and richly coloured Miltonia 
vexillaria gigantea and maxima, M. v. Reginz, a fine flower with white lip, 
M. X Bleuana amabilis and nobilior, in excellent condition, well-flowered 
examples of Maxillaria luteo-alba and M. Sanderiana, the brilliant Renan- 
thera Imschootiana, Dendrobiums Devonianum, densiflorum, atroviolaceum, 
and others, Zygopetalum x Perrenoudi, Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, 
Cattleya intermedia alba with 20 flowers, some good C. Lawrenceanum, C. 
Skinneri, C. X Louis Chaton, the beautiful C. x Suzanne Hye de Crom, 
some good C. Schroeder and Mendelii, Oncidiums Marshallianum and 
concolor, Brassocattleya nivalis, the richly-coloured B.-c. Peetersie (C- 
Warscewiczii X B.-c. Madame Ch. Maron), some good B.-c. Mrs. J. Lee- 
mann, B.-c. Reneie (Leliocattleya luminosa x B.-c. Mrs. J. Leemann), 
having flowers mottled with yellow, Brassolzlia Eugene Boullet, a pretty 
hybrid from Cattleya Schroedere x Lelia Cowanii, with light yellow 
flowers larger than in the latter, C. Mossie x L. flava, a pretty pink flower 
with the lip much crisped and rich purple in front, Phalzenopsis amabilis, 
