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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
[June, 1913. 
GHENT SHOW 
{Concluded from page 188.) 
M. Maurce Verdonck, received a Gold 
Medal, value 50 francs, for the best collection 
of Orchids from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, 
and the Equator ; and a similar award for 
Orchids from India. M. Verdonck also 
obtained a Silver-gilt Medal for a collection 
of Dendrobiums, and a Gold Medal for 
Odontoglossums. 
M. Vincke, Bruges, was awarded a Silver- 
gilt Medal for an exhibit of Vanda suavis. 
Mons. J. van de Putte, received a Gold 
Medal, value 100 francs, for an excellent 
collection of Orchids, and various Prizes for 
special species and varieties. 
Mons. Firmin Lambeau, Brussels, exhibited 
Cymbidium Humblotii, and obtained the First 
Prize for the best Cymbidium. Count Joseph 
de Hemptinne, St. Denis, Westrcm, secured 
the Second Prize for a magnificent specimen 
Cymbidium Lowianum, carrying 36 long 
spikes. The plant had been in his collection 
16 years. 
In the class for the most beautiful Den- 
drobium, Mons. Verdonck secured a Silver- 
gilt Medal for D. densiflorum, and Sir 
Jeremiah Colman, Bart., obtained a Silver 
Medal for D. Lady Colman. This latter 
exhibitor also received a Silver-gilt Medal 
for the finest variety of Odontoglossum 
crispum. 
For the finest Lycaste, Messrs. Pauwels 
were awarded a Silver-gilt Medal for Lycaste 
Skinneri alba " La Perle." The Second Prize 
going to Messrs. J. van de Putte and Co. 
Mons. Th. Pauwels, secured a Silver-gilt 
Medal for the finest Cymbidium hybrid by 
exhibiting C. Pauwelsii ; and a similar award 
for Cypripedium Alcibiades " Roi Albert." 
This same exhibitor staged a magnificent 
specimen Eulophiella Peetersiana (Hamelinii) 
with two tall spikes each carrying about two 
dozen rose coloured fleshy flowers. 
Mme. A. de Schryver-Block, Gentbrugge, 
was awarded a Second Prize for an exhibit of 
15 Cypripediums. 
For the best exhibit of Phalienopsis, Mons. 
Th. Pauwels secured the First Prize, and 
Mons. L. Hoornaert, St.-Nicholas, won the 
Second. 
Mons. Firmin Lambeau was awarded a 
Silver-gilt Medal for the finest Odontioda 
(Coronation), and Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., 
secured a Silver Medal for Odontioda Brad- 
shawias " Lady Colman." 
Messrs. J. van de Putte and Co. were first 
with Sobralia, and Mons. Th. Pauwels secured 
a Silver-gilt Medal for Trichopilia Hennisii. 
ORCHID GROUPS. 
EXHIBITORS of Orchids at the Royal 
Horticultural Society should bear in 
' mind the fact that Cups and Medals 
are awarded in accordance with the high-class 
nature of the plants included, and not to the 
amount of space that is occupied. The Society 
desires to encourage the cultivation of 
improved and new varieties, rare species and 
specimen plants, and it is for such that the 
judges award points. 
The exhibitor who stages one hundred 
square feet of ordinary varieties frequently 
expresses surprise when a group of often less 
than half the size receives a higher award for 
the reason that it contains plants of superior 
merit. 
These remarks do not apply to Orchids 
only, but to all kinds of plants, and if the 
staging of large areas of similar or ordinary 
plants continues the Council may find it 
necessary to restrict such exhibits to reason- 
able proportions. 
However large the exhibition may be there 
is always a limit to the space at the disposal 
of the authorities, and it is very disappointing 
to those amateurs who, after cultivating with 
great care the jalants in which they are 
specially interested, find that they are pre- 
vented from exhibiting the same owing to 
insufficient room. 
There is no doubt that in the early days 
of the Society, when it did not enjoy such 
prosperity as is now the case, the exhibiting 
of large groups of similar plants was of great 
assistance in forming a show, but in these 
