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great importance to the atmospheric conditions of the houses, the proper 
adjustment of the shading, ventilation, and supply of moisture. Polypodium 
fibre and sphagnum moss are chiefly used as a compost, and great care is 
taken to avoid over-watering, the treatment in this respect being what may 
be termed on the dry side. Cleanliness is everywhere apparent, and in this 
connection may be mentioned the use of tobacco stalks on the hot water 
pipes which keeps thrip in check. The plants are everywhere in the most 
thriving condition, which shows how well their requirements are met. As 
regards the seedling Odontoglossums we may add that great care is taken to 
keep accurate records, and as the seedlings are carefully numbered the 
parentage can easily be traced. This is a matter of the highest importance, 
and we hope that it will be possible to compile some interesting informa- 
tion in the near future. We spent a very pleasant afternoon among the 
plants, and must congratulate M. Peeters upon his success, and upon the 
excellent condition of the establishment generally. 
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ORCHIDS AT BRUGES. 
ORCHID culture is carried on most extensively at the Bruges establishment 
of Messrs. Sander & Sons, which we have just had the pleasure of seeing, 
and so numerous are the Orchid houses that we quite lost count of them, 
but the plants themselves formed a remarkable series, both imported and 
home-raised, and our notes contain only a fraction of the interesting things 
which we saw. 
The Odontoglossum houses are numerous, and contain thousands of 
plants of the various popular species, large numbers of which were in 
bloom, making a very fine display. Those noted included many fine forms 
of O. crispum, luteopurpureum, triumphans, Pescatorei, X Wilckeanum, 
X loochristiense, x Adriane, X elegans, Hunnewellianum, pulchellum, 
Edwardii, &c., while the home-raised- seedlings formed an extensive series 
in all stages, including many fine things in flower. Among the latter were 
some fine O. x Harryano-crispum, one spike bearing fifteen fine blooms, 
some good seedlings of O. crispum with handsomely blotched flowers, O. x 
altum with fifteen flowers, some good O. X amabile, two fine plants of 
i. x Thompsonianum with two and fcur spikes, some very good 0: x 
Wilckeanum, O. X Hiawatha and O. X gemmatum, which were described 
at page 158 of our May issue, O. X Harryano-triumphans, O. X ardentissi- 
mum X Hunnewellianum, O. xX Adriane X triumphans, and various 
others. One seedling was noticed with variegated leaves. Many plants 
were bearing capsules, and a capsule of O. ramosissimum was shedding its 
Seeds, but we did not note the cross. Polypodium fibre and sphagnum 
moss are used as a compost, and we noted many small seedlings in tiny yots 
