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of orange-yellow colour, the lip tinged with apricot colour. It is the result 
of crossing Le. Elinor with Le. Trimyra. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., staged Odontioda Zarina (crispo-Harryanum X Oda, 
Chanticler) with a spike of five roundly-formed flowers of reddish tint. 
Chas. Gray, Esq., Cobham, Surrey, exhibited two cut flowers of a 
Brassavola Digbyana hybrid, white, with slight purple flush on the lip. 
MANCHESTER ORCHID SOCIETY. 
March ist, 1922. 
EMBERS of the Committee present: Rev. J. Crombleholme (in the 
chair), Messrs. R. Ashworth, B. J. Beckton, J. Birchenall, 
A. Burns, A. Coningsby, D. A. Cowan, J. Cypher, J. Evans, J. Howes, 
J. Jackson, W. M. Jackson, A. Keeling, J. Lupton, D. McLeod, E. W. 
Thompson, J. Thrower, J. Whitham, and H. Arthur (secretary). 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATES. 
Cypripedium Senator (Gladiator x Lord Wolmer), large well-shaped 
flower, handsomely spotted dorsal sepal, margined with white; Odonto- 
glossum promerens var. Prince Henry, large reddish blotches on a white 
ground; Lycaste Skinneri var. Virgin Queen, one of the best white varieties, 
lemon-yellow in the throat; from S. Gratrix, Esq. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
Cypripedium memoria F. M. Ogilvie vars. The Chancellor and 
Leopardinum ; from S. Gratrix, Esq. 
Dendrobium Bancroftianum and Cypripedium Cardemona (Carola X 
Desdemona); from P. Smith, Esq. 
AWARDS OF APPRECIATION, FIRST-CLASS. 
Dendrobium Electrum and D. Orestes ; from S. Gratrix, Esq. 
Odontoglossum Maillardianum var. Olympia; from Col. Sir J- 
Rutherford, M.P. 
GROUPS. 
A Large Silver Medal was awarded to S. Gratrix, Esq., for a group 
containing many fine Cypripediums and Odontoglossums. A Silver Medal 
was granted to Jas. Whitham, Esq., Crompton Hall, for a fine exhibit of 
Cypripediums and Cymbidiums, and a Large Silver Medal to Messrs. J- 
Cypher & Sons for an exhibit of Dendrobiums, Miltonias and Masdevallias. 
Mrs. Gratrix staged Cattleya amabilis sanguinea; B. J. Beckton, Esq: 
showed the rare Masdevallia deorsa and Pleurothallis ornata, Col. Sir 
Rutherford, Bart., staged some richly-coloured Odontiodas; Messrs. Keeling 
& Sons had a selection of Vandas, Lelias and Cymbidiums ;: Mr. D. 
McLeod showed several fine Cypripediums; and Messrs. Cowan & Co., 4 
cut spike of Cymbidium Coningsbyanum, a very fine variety. 
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