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Messrs. E. H. Davidson & Co., Orchid: Dene, Twyford, sent Odontioda 
Bradshawiz Borlases var., a large scarlet form. 
_ Messrs. J. & A. McBean, Cooksbridge, staged a small group of brightly- 
édloured Odontiodas, with Odontoglossum Pescatorei Pitt’s var., the 
white Cattleya Brenda, and a few good Cymbidiums. 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
OponTIODA ZENOBIA (O. Charlesworthii X Odontoglossum percultum),. 
—A very fine hybrid, having broad, obtuse, dark chocolate brown sepals 
and petals, and a very broad rose-purple lip, with a yellow crest and a little 
white at the basal angles. Exhibited by F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The 
Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. Balmforth). 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
DENDROBIUM SUPERBUM HUTTONI SOUTHFIELD VAR.—A fine white 
form, with an unusually large feathered blotch on the lip: Exhibited by 
W. Waters Butler, Esq., Southfield, Edgbaston. 
SOPHROCATLELIA NIOBE ORCHID DENE VaR. (L.-c. Gottoiana x S.-l. 
Felicia)—A very beautiful form, of good shape, and having bright rose- 
purple flowers, with a dark claret-red lip. Exhibited by Messrs. E. H. 
Davidson & Co. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATIONS. 
DENDROBIUM GLUMACEUM.—To Mr. W. H. White, Orchid grower to 
Lady Lawrence, Burford, for a very fine plant, bearing about 100 spikes of 
white fragrant flowers. 
OponTIODA BrapsHAwl&:-—To Mr. J. Collier, gardener to Sir Jeremiah 
Colman, Bart, Gatton Park, for a very fine plant, bearing a branched 
inflorescence with 119 scarlet flowers. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 
At the meeting held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on Thursday, 
February 26th, the members of Committee present were: Rev. J. 
Crombleholme (in the Chair), Messrs. J. Bamber, J. Cypher, A. G. 
Ellwood, J. Evans, A. Hanmer, J. Howes, J. Lupton, D. McLeod, C. 
Parker, W. Shackleton, A. Warburton, Z. A. Ward, A. A. McBean, and 
H. Arthur (Secretary). 
R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch (gr. Mr. Gilden), was awarded a Silver- 
gilt Medal for a fine group of Odontoglossums and various other Orchids. 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bury (gr. Mr. Rogers), staged a magnificent 
gtoup of Lycastes, containing over a dozen named varieties of L. Skinner, 
with L. lasioglossa, Imshootiana, and Tunstillii, a Silver-gilt Medal being 
awarded to the gardener for excellence of culture, some of the plants with 
a single lead carrying up to a dozen flowers. 
Large Silver Medals were awarded to A. Warburton, Esq., Haslingden 
