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THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 



Atjgttst 17, 1912. 



trance gates were picked out with electric 

 lights, and so at night the Market Place 

 presented a quite pretty picture. Our ilhiB- 

 tration shows the monument with the com- 

 petitive di6.playsof pelargoniums and. margue- 

 ritofl, grouped in flower l>ods, with fuch8ia« 

 and dracaenas behind them. It also shows 

 one of the bay-tree cornerci, and the lower 

 part of the lielfry filling the background. 

 In the halls it wm practically impoasdble to 

 take photographs because of the subdued 



light. 



The arrangement of thie exhibition was on 

 the U8ual continental lines, everything Ijeing 

 dLsponed so as to ensure an effective and har- 

 monious whole. In the Belfry Halls, as in 

 the open Market l*lace, the &ame idea of 

 general effectivenesw was kept in view, with 

 excellent results, but the lighting in the 

 halls was not good, and during the numerous 

 .-liowers that occurred on the earlier dajrs 

 of the exhibition, the clouded skies made it 

 difficult to read the labek on the plants. 

 Palms, new plant**, fernn, orchids, brome- 

 liads, stove plants, dracaenas, crotons, and 

 anthuriums were among the leading featuree 



After our own great international horti- 

 cultural exhibition at Chelsea, the Bruges 

 hhow was a small affair, and, of course, it 

 was not so large as the last Ghent Quin- 

 quennial Show. But everything muet have 

 a l)eginning, and for the third attempt it was 

 ai excellent effort. 



GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 



A schedule of four hundred and sixteen 

 classes means a large show, and much care 

 in the disposition of the exhibits, but the 

 committee, with the secretary, Mr. €. Stein- 

 metz, and the president, M. Dumon, made 

 their arrangements with the greater com- 

 pleteness the position for everything being 

 marked out boldly, the shape of every group 

 carefully defined, and the name of every 

 competitor ma-rked on his place, so that 

 there was no confusion. 



Saturday, Augusrt 10, waa devoted to judg- 

 ing, but it was quite a good while afteT the 

 advertised time before the jury commenced 

 work. M, Dumon addressed the members 

 of the jury, and extended a hearty welcome 

 to the seventv-live who had come from all 



A di^inct and att racti v e 



Ex hibi t ion, Bruges, 



SpORATEA FORGETLVNA. 



new palm exhibited at 

 by Mesers. Sander and 



the International Horticultural 

 Son^, St. Albans and Bruges. 



in the great halls, and these were all capi- 

 talljr grown and shown, indeed it was not 

 possible to find a poorly-grown plant any- 

 where^ 



Cut flowery were not a large taction, and 

 it must be stated that in quality and in ar- 

 rangement this was by far the weakest sec- 

 tion of the exhibition. The roses were 

 shown in little bunches on large flat Ixmrds 

 or boxes. Gladioli were present in large 

 numbers; each spike was stuck in a wine 

 bottle, and the bottles set quite clase toge- 

 ther. It is a little pleasing to our insular 

 vanity to know that we can display cut 

 flowers better at home than at Bruges, and, 

 so far as we could gather, at this season, 

 we can also grow roees, gladioli, and phloxes 

 better at home. Perpetual carnations were 

 conspicuous by their absence at Bruges, and 

 yet po British exhibition is complete without 

 them. There was on exhibit of marguerite 

 carnations in the courtyard of the Belfry, 

 w here ^bajrs, standard euonymuses, etc., were 

 disposed in grass-bordered beds. 



parts of Europe, and one from America. As 

 usual the judges were divided into groups, 

 each with it« own president and -secretary. 

 Judging was finished in good time, and then 

 followed luncheon in the Provincial Govern- 

 ment Buildings. During the whole of this 

 day the exhibition was reserved for the 

 officers and judges, and in their honour there 

 was a special musical entertainment in the 

 evening by a first-rate regimental band. 

 This was all very pleasant, as wo^ the ban- 

 quet the following evening, but we should 

 have been even more grateful had the award 

 cards been placed in position fairly early 

 during Saturday afternoon, so that the deci- 

 sions of all the judges could have been known 

 and noted. 



Those who came over from England and 

 acted On the jury were: Messrs. J. S. Brun- 

 ton, Burnley; G. D, Clark, Dover; G. H. 

 Curtis, of the Gabdeners' Magazine; Jas. 

 Hudson. V.M.H., Gunnersbury House, 

 Acton; W. Iceton, Putney; Gurney Wilson, 

 Hay wards Heath; and Rev. J. Cromble- 



Continen- 

 included : 



Mdme. 



Ghent; 

 Firm in 



holme, Accrington, Manchester, 

 tal horticulturists on the jury 



la Comtesse Louis de Hemptinne, 

 MM. Jules de Cock, Meirelebeke;* 

 de iSmet and Eomaine de Smet' 

 Ghent; Jules Hye Ghent; Firmin Lambeau| 

 Brussels; C. Pynaert, Ghent; Philippe de 

 Vilmorin and A. Truffant, of Paris; H. 

 Lambert, Trier; and W. Sibert, of Frank- 

 furt; while Mr. T. Tyson came from Madi- 

 son, New York. 



There were sixty different competitors, re- 

 presenting Belgium, France, Holland, Ger- 

 many, England, Luxembourg, and Switzer- 

 land. 



ORCHIDS. 



Notwithstanding the late season, orchids 

 were really well shown, and a goodly number 

 of exhibitors came forward. Tlie largest 

 competitors were Messrs. Sander and Sons, 

 St. Albans and Bruges, and they secured the 

 Work of Art and the large gold medal 



offered for the best trade collection. This 



and 



in it the 

 Dendrobiu 



any 



k?xh ibit was a large one , 

 specially fine things were 

 superbiens, beautifully flowered, associated 

 with hybrid odontoglossums, Lselio-cattleya 

 Aphrodite, the charming Dendrobium San- 

 derae, Cattleya Dowiana, Brasso-cattleya vio- 

 lacea, the aromatic and waxy flowers of 

 Anguloa eburnea, brides Sanderiana, a fine 

 example of Vanda Lowi, with three of its 

 long spikes; Vanda caerulea, Acineta densa 

 with numerous pendant spikes of golden 

 flowers, Cypripedium Maudse, and n 

 other fine things. 



The same firm had the best speci 

 Phalaenopsis, a wonderful plant of P. vio- 

 lacea with seven huge leaves, and two spikes 

 of its violet-centred flowers. For a collec- 

 tion of cypripediums, the Messrs. Sander led 

 the way, and here the best things were C. 

 Edwardi superbum, C, Felicity, C. A. de 

 Lairesse, C- Warnhamense, C. Oakee Ames, 

 and C. Lord Derby. The best specimen 

 cypripedium was a large C, Lord Derby with 

 four spikes and ten large green an3 white 

 and roee-purple flowers. Another award fell 

 to the St, Albans firm for ^ eollection of 

 cattleyas and laelias; here the flowers were 

 rather small, save in the cases of C. Gaskel- 

 liana alba and Brasso-cattleya Thorntoni. 



Miltonias were quite well shown for the 

 season, and gold medals were granted to JM- 

 Jules Hye, Ghent, and Mons. C, Vuylsteke 

 for their contribution of these effective 

 flowers. The latter gained a medal for his 

 four seedling miltonias, all from a cross 

 between M. Hyeana and M, Phalsenopsis, the 

 one named M, Keine Elizabeth de Belgique 

 being very pretty, with rosy-violet markings 

 on the lip and on the petals'^ Cattleya gigas, 

 Frau Melanie Beyrodt, with four beautiful 

 blooms, the pure white sepals and petals 

 forming a grand setting for the bright 

 violet-purple lip, was exhibited by M. Jules 

 Hye, 



M. Firmin Lambeau was awarded a large 

 gold medal, with felicitations, for a lovely 

 collection of orchids. Vanda caerulea was 

 capitally shown, and eo were C. Gaskelliana, 

 C. Juliet— white-flowered, Cattleya Baron 

 Delbeke, a fine secondary hybnd,, giving 

 large evidence of C. Dowiana influence, and 

 with a glorious combination of ruby, purpl^, 

 and gold in the lip. The very pretty Onci- 

 dioda Charlesworthi, and Odontioda heaton- 

 ensis added grace to colour and beauty, and 

 Miltonioda Harwoodi, and Phalsenopsis Riuie- 

 stadiana were also very fine in this collec- 

 tion. 



Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Haywards 

 Heath, contributed a table of orchids, and 

 in this collection the branching spikes of 

 Odontoglossom Solon, O. .armainvillier^sense 

 xanthotes, O. Epicaste, and O. ardentissimum 

 were conspicuously beautiful. O. crispuni 

 Golden Gem, with bright yellow lip, and yel- 

 low fipottings on the sepals, was another 

 beautiful and striking plant. Cattleya 

 Rhoda, Lselio-cattleya eximia, Cypripedium 

 Daisy Barclay, Odontionia Lairesfise, and On- 

 cidioda Charlesworthi were other good and 

 interesting plants in this gold medal dis- 

 play. M. G. Vincke, Bruges, was awarded a 



