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large and brilliantly-coloured form, with very undulate purple-rose sepals 
and petals, and a ruby crimson lip. Exhibited by Messrs. J. & A. McBean. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. ; 
CyPRIPEDIUM DEspEMoNA (Mrs. Cary Batten x Alcibiades).—A very 
handsome form, having a broad, brownish yellow dorsal sepal with a white 
margin, a very broad median band with some veins on each side, and very 
broad, brown and yellow petals and lip. Exhibited by Messrs. Charles- 
worth & Co. 
OpontTiopa Doris (see New Hybrids, p. 59). 
ODONTIODA S1IBYL (see New Hybrids, p. 59). 
CULTURAL COMMENDATIONS. 
CYMBIDIUM PAUWELsII.—To Mr. J. E. Shill, Orchid grower to Baron 
Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green, for three fine plants, bearing 
seven very long spikes of flowers. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM AMABILE SPLENDENS.—To Messrs. Charlesworth & 
Co., for a fine plant, bearing a spike of fourteen magnificent flowers. 
MANCHESTER & NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 
At the meeting held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on Thursday, 
January 15th, 1914, the members of Committee present were: Rev. J. 
Crombleholme (in the chair), Messrs. R. Ashworth, J. Bamber, J. Cypher, 
J. Evans, A. Hanmer, J. Howes, J. Lupton, D. McLeod, W. J. Morgan, 
C. Parker, W. Shackleton, Wm. Thompson, H. Thorp, Z. A. Ward, G. 
Weatherby, and H. Arthur (Secretary). 
R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch (gr. Mr. Gilden), was awarded a Large 
Silver Medal for a group of good Odontoglossums, Odontioda Devosiana 
and Charlesworthii, Cypripedium bellatulum album, Gomesa Barkeri, and 
others. 
A. Warburton, Esq., Haslingden (gr. Mr. Dalgleish), was also awarded 
a Large Silver Medal for a fine group of Cypripediums, noteworthy among 
them being C. aureum virginale (for which a Cultural Certificate and 
Bronze Medal were awarded to the gardener), various Odontoglossums, 
including the rare O. sceptrum Masereelianum, and Ocidium lamelligerum. 
H. Arthur, Esq., Blackburn, sent Cypripedium insigne excelsior, 
Sanacderze, Actzeus Sybil, nitens Ball’s var., and Oncidium serratum, 
with a spike carrying forty-one flowers. 
Col. J. Rutherford, M.P., Blackburn (gr. Mr. Lupton), sent Cymbidium 
Holfordianum. 
Messrs. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, were awarded a Silver-gilt Medal 
for a fine group of Cypripediums, Calanthe Bryan, Wm. Murray, 
bella, and Harrisii, Masdevallia Schroederiana, Hincksiana, bockingensis, 
Lelia anceps Sanderiana, and others, 
