DECEMBER, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 367 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION 
ODONTOGLOssuM LAMBEAUIANUM.—To Mr. J. Davis, gr. to J. Gurney 
Fowler, Esq., for a well-grown plant, bearing a strong inflorescence, about 
four feet high, with eight side branches and an aggregate of 53 flowers. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND. 
At the meeting held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on November 
5th, 1914, the members of Committee present were :—Rev. J. Cromble- 
holme (in the Chair), Messrs. R. Ashworth, J. Bamber, J. Cypher, J. 
Evans, A. Hanmer, J. Howes, A. 3 Keeling, J. Lupton, D. McLeod, W. J. 
Morgan, C. Parker, W. Shackleton, H. Thorp, Z. A. Ward, G. Weatherby, 
and H. Arthur (Secretary). 
Col. J. Rutherford, M.P., Blackburn (gr. Mr. Lupton), was awarded a 
Large Silver-gilt Medal for a fine group, in which Cattleya labiata was 
represented by a fine batch of white varieties, with C. Dusseldorfii Undine, 
C. Portia, C. Mantinii nobilior, Brassocattleyas, Lzliocattleya Yellow 
Prince, Sophrocattleya Doris, Cymbidium Tracyanum, Oncidium varicosum 
Rogersii and praetextum, Epidendrum vitellinum, and others. 
R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch (gr. Mr. Gilden), staged a mixed group, 
to which a Silver-gilt Medal was awarded. It contained a fine series of 
Cattleyas, Lzeliocattleya highfieldiense, Odontoglossum Twyford Gem, O. 
crispum xanthotes, and others, with choice Cypripediums of the season. 
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange (gr. Mr. Howes), was awarded a 
Large Silver Medal for a choice group of Cattleyas and Cypripediums, 
Miltonia vexillaria Leopoldii, and others. 
Z. A. Ward, Esq., Northenden (gr. Mr. Weatherby), was also awarded 
a Large Silver Medal for a group of well-grown:Cypripediums, Cattleya 
Rothschildiana alba, C. Ella, &c. 
Mrs. R. le Doux, West Derby (gr. Mr. J. W. Fletcher), was awarded a 
Silver Medal for a group of Cattleyas, Cypripedium R. le Doux, Gaston 
Bultel, Hannibal, and others. 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bury (gr. Mr. Rogers), staged ten plants of 
Cypripedium Maudie, nine of C. Fairrieanum, C. Boltonii, and others, with 
some good Epidendrum vitellinum, and a few Cattleyas. 
H. J. Bromilow, Esq., Rainhill (gr. Mr. W. J. Morgan), sent Cypripedium 
Reginald Young and C. Earl of Tankerville x Fairrieanum. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, were awarded a Silver Medal fora 
group of Cattleyas, Lzliocattleya Walter Gott, Cypripedium Moonbeam 
x Leeanum Prospero, Ccelogyne Mooreana, Saccolabium acutifolium, 
Dendrochilum uncatum, and others. 
Messrs. A. J. Keeling & Sons, Bradford, sent some good Cypripediums, 
Cattleya Dusseldorfii Undine, and Odontoglossum seedlings. 
