152 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1908. 
For the most beautiful Vanda, M. Th. Pauwels gained the first prize, 
with V. suavis pallida, a very beautiful light-coloured variety having the 
spets entirely green. 
In a class for any other exotic Orchid remarkable for culture and 
floriferousnéss, small plants of Epidendrum cochleatum and E. atropur- 
pureum were staged (the latter labelled E. elongatum), but no awards were 
made. 
For the most complete collection of Horticultural publications that 
have appeared during the past century in Belgium, a Gold Medal was given 
to M. A. Goossens, Auderghem, the group including a beautiful series of 
pictures from the Dictionnaire des Orchidées. 
For the most beautiful basket decorated with Orchid flowers, the first 
prize went to M. Debrie-Lachaume, Paris, unanimously, with congratula- 
tions of the Jury, and the second to M. Van Hautte-Bogaerts, Ghent. 
For the best bouquet of Orchids, the last-mentioned exhibitor was 
awarded the first prize, with congratulations of the Jury. 
In the class for dinner table decorations, Orchid flowers were used with 
marked effect, the first prize going to M. A. Van der Heede, Ghent, who 
used Cattleya Schreedere intermixed with graceful foliage, and the second 
to M. Van Hautte-Bogaerts, Ghent, who used chiefly spikes of Odonto- 
glossum, both groups being extremely graceful. 
For an Orchid house twelve métres long, complete with heating 
apparatus, a Gold Medal was awarded to Mm. Veuve Buss et fils, for 4 
very well designed structure. ) 
Non-COMPETITIVE GROUPS. 
The non-competitive groups formed a very brilliant series, and we may 
take them in the order of the official list. 
Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gt- Mr 
Alexander), staged a most brilliant and artistically-arranged group, Occupy 
ing a space of over 300 square feet, at the end of one of the galleries. A 
fine CZuvre d’Art was awarded, with congratulations. It is impossible to do 
justice to such a group in the space at our disposal, but a few of the leading 
features must be mentioned. The forms of Odontoglossum were superb, 
and included about roo spikes of O. crispum in very numerous varieties, one 
alone bore fifty-two flowers, while the allied species and hybrids wet© 
well represented. Cymbidium x eburneo-Lowianum was a noble example, 
bearing twenty-four spikes and over 120 flowers, C. X Lowgrinum, C. 
Lowianum concolor, and other fine Cymbidiums being included. The 
albino Cattleya x Dusseldorffii_ var. Undine was represented by fourteen 
plants, bearing over forty flowers, and with superb forms of C. Schreeder®, 
Triane, Mendelii, Lawrenceana, Lueddemanniana, and various hybrids, 
made a fine display. Brassocattleyas and Brassolzlias were both numerous 
