One franc is the price of admission to the Exposition. To-day, another franc is charged - inside - for admission to the Horticultural Department. It is arranged about as any other first-class Exposition. Specimen Palms at the back around the hall, on stilts, to accommodate the height of the building, and groups on the floor. Palms are as seen in all first-class collections. Astrocary um, Areca.Chamaerops, Livistonia, Pritch-ardia, Kentia, Phoenix, Luculla, Thrynax, and several others are represented in good size specimens. I think there are larger specimens in the United States of Pritchardia grandis, that any I have seen here.

The first prize for twelve Crotons was awarded to large and well colored specimens of the following: Johannis, Magnifolia, Andreanum, B. Rothschild, Mortii, Rosea picta, Messangeana, Fascination, Baron F. Seilleur, Ovaefolium, Tortilis, with Philodendron crassifolium on it for a label. The second prize was awarded to a collection of smaller plants, also well grown and colored, in which not one of the above names occurred.

The first prize for a collection of Orchids, 12 in number, was awarded to the following: AErides Dayana, Cattleya Mendelii, Cypripedium bar-batum superbum, - a large piece with about 30 blooms, Vanda suavis Veitchii, Vanda suavis Lindenii, Odontoglossum Alexandra, Oncidium su-perbiens, Cattleya Gaskelliana, Epidendrum vitel-linum, Vanda tricolor insignis, Calanthe vera-trifolia and Miriaspidium sanguineum. The first prize for a specimen Orchid went to a ragged looking piece of Dendrobium thrysiflorum with 5 spikes, a good deal past its best.

First prize for twelve Nepenthes went to the following: Ampulacea, Hookeriana, Morganae, Stew-artii, Laevis, Veitchii, intermedia, Masterii, some of the pitchers of which would hold a quart, San-guinea, Maculata, Chelsoni, and Dominiana, all well grown and pitchered.

I think there are two first-prize collections of Gloxinias and well they deserved it. You see one can not find out anything, no one here speaking English. Carnations, etc., in pots, were well done, as were cut blooms, nicely exhibited with their own grass; and otherwise were very creditable, until one came to a collection of, I think, 36 varieties of Flakes and Bizarres from Chas. Turner, the Royal Nurseries, Slough, England, which knocked everything of that description in the Exposition higher than the old fashioned "cocked hat" used to be.

I noticed some large pieces of flowering An-thuriums, some with 100 flowers I think, but I did not see A. feriense, or A. Rothschildianum among them. A large piece of A. crystallinium, and another of A. Warocquianum were grown one-sided, but there was a famous piece of A. Veitchii with over 30 leaves, some more than 3 feet long.

Among other Orchids in bloom, I noticed Acineta Humboltii, Dendrobium formosum gigan-teum, Phalasnopsis amabilis, Laelia majalis, Cattleya Loddigesii, Cattleya Gigas, Phajus Humboltii, Vanda suavis Rollinsii, Anguloa Ruckerii, Saccolabium Blumei, Batemania meleagris, Disa grandiflora, Cattleya Sanderiana, Cattleya Leo-poldii, Anguloa Clowesii, Vanda Walltichii and several others.

It would make this too long to mention all the plants worthy of notice, but I will mention a few. Cochliostema Jacobiana, a large piece, was well bloomed, also Medinilla magnifica, and a good balloon shaped piece of Lapageria alba in a 16-inch pot. Caladiums are dull in color to me, as I have grown some of the same varieties for the past two years at New Orleans (received from here), Rex Begonias also. I have seen better plants of Louis Cretein than were in any collection here. Double Petunias in pots are fine, also Geraniums; but large specimens are in tubs, enough for four men to carry.

Tree and other ferns are well represented, and some splendid collections and specimens are on exhibition, and a nice little case of Aneoctochilis and another of Bertolonias from Louis Van Houtte. Antwerp, Belgium, August 2, 1885.