banks of foliage. Hight masses of dwarfer 



specimens in splendid 



»t liquid manure, enable the growers to pro- 

 great size, whicb can be moved about with 

 rears ago collections of palms were grown 

 icipal Belgian nurserymen ; now house after 

 or of a very few of those best adapted for 

 met with, and the rarer kinds of less value 

 ; of view have almost entirely disappeared. 

 Liri.sfoita are the genera now most frequently 

 t in the exhibition a number oi tin, speeimen- 

 Pn/thru (imported from the Riviera), Thrinar, 

 " Seaforthia, &c. were to be seen. 



all, huge specimen Azaleas were so thickly 



mi considerable trouble taken in '' keeping 

 my ordinary condition.-- in Mich a season as 

 the present would have been quite out'oi flower before the exhibition 

 opened. We beard of one exhibitor placing blocks of ice in his Azalea 

 house in order to keep down the temperature. Careful shading — in some 

 cases moving p .. &c, — VV as also resorted to. Some of 



the Aroids exhibited were exceptionally line; a grander lot of Authu- 

 rium scherzeriudinn than that exhibited by M. G. Warocque was 

 probably never before -ecu ; the specimens were vcrv huge, healthy, and 

 '— - inflorescences. The ornamental foliage 

 nted ; these plants are more widely grown as 



The palms 



were o-p -ial 



health in sms 





pecially in the 



application (J 



duce beautiful 



specimen- of 



comparative e 





for sale by soi 



ne of the prin 





ngle species 







from a " f urn 





Kent in, Phan 





represented in 





of Washnujto 



,1 and /,>,/ 



Saba I, I! ha pi 



v. Pritehardi 



In the centi 













tion. There 





back " plants 



which under 



jve decorative plants in Belgii 

 Britain. Ferns, with the exception of tree- 







and variety are to be seen at any of the large London shows. 



Cycads were good and attracted much attention, but they were 

 decidedly inf. n- v. tbi nstanee, to tho-e in cultivation in the Palm House 

 at Kew. File were exhibited in ureal variety by 



M. Louis Van Houtte. 



The Norfolk Maid Pine, Araucaria excelsa, and a number of 

 garden varieties of it were exhibited in the most perfect condition ; in and 

 around Ghent whole series of houses in manv establishments are devoted 

 1 of this conifer. It is one of the most popular plants 

 servatory decoration. 



In the Central Hall ol the Rotunda were exhibited two verv wonder- 

 ful groups of orchids curtaining many rare choice and valuable varieties 

 ot well-known species, and not a few well-«rown plane- of rare species 

 beautifully flowered. The two exhibitors ^^ MM, 3. Hye and 

 <j. Warocque, both Belgian amateurs. 



A collection, said to contain 22S distinct species, manv of them 

 uncommon, was exhibited by M. Alfred Van Imschoot"; amongst 

 them was a Vanilla in fruit. 



Both at the exhibition and in many of the nurseries visited, the 

 Eniilish visitor cmdd not help being struck by the health and \ igour ot 

 Cattlevas, ( ' : .-. and other orchids. Whether the 



extreme vigour of the plant- conduces to longevity (many orchids are 



see definitely settled. As a rule a much higher temperature is main- 



