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Lycaste Redwing (supposed natural hybrid) ; from S. Gratrix, Esq. 
Cypripedium Odin (Sunrise X Antinous); from W. R: Lee, Esq. 
Cypripedium Lebal (Leeanum Clinkaberryanum X Hannibal) ; from 
Tom Worsley, Esq. 
FIRST-CLASS BOTANICAL CERTIFICATES. 
Spathoglottis Petri and Catasetum splendens Lindenii; from Mrs. 
Bruce and Miss Wrigley. 
FIRST-CLASS AWARD OF APPRECIATION. 
Odontoglossum Gorizia (President Poincaré x Jasper) ; from W. R. 
Lee, Esq. 
Silver-gilt Medals were awarded to Mrs. Bruce and Miss Wrigley, Bury 
(gr. Mr. Rogers), and to S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Grange (gr. Mr. J. 
Howes), for very fine groups, both being strong in choice Cypripediums, 
while the former included: some finely-grown Calanthes and forms of 
Lycaste Skinneri, and the latter some good Odontoglossums. 
A Silver Medal was awarded to Messrs. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, 
~ for a fine group of winter-blooming Orchids. 
Interesting exhibits were staged by Wm. Pickup, Esq., Great Harwood 
(gr. Mr. H. Mercer); Tom Worsley, Esq., Haslingden (gr. Mr. T. Wood) ; 
R. Lee, Esq., Heywood (gr. Mr. C. Branch) ; P. Smith, Esq., Ashton-on- 
Mersey (gr. Mr. E. W. Thompson); Messrs. Keeling and Sons, Bradford ; 
and Mr. W. Shackleton, Bradford, several of them being included in the 
above list of Awards. 
HARLES G. ROEBLING.—*“ By the death of Mr. C. G. Roebling, of 
Trenton, New Jersey, which took place on October 5th last, America 
loses her oldest amateur Orchid grower and [a true friend.” Thus writes Mr. 
James Goodier, who has long had charge of Mr. Roebling’s collection, and 
who sends a copy of the State Gazette, of Trenton, N.J., containing a portrait 
of the deceased gentleman, who was in his 69th year, and had been ill. for 
two months with Bright’s disease. An engineer by profession, and 
President of the great Roebling Company, he was the engineering genius of 
numerous brilliant feats, but his private hobby was Orchids, of which he 
Possessed a fine collection, including a good many of his own raising. In 
an article upon his favourite subject written some eighteen yeas ago, Mr. 
Roebling wrote :. ‘One of the greatest pleasures of Orchid culture is. 
_ derived from hybridising. It seems a long time to wait several years for a 
‘Seedling to bloom, but when the hour comes that gives us a variety that not 
only is beautiful, but has never flowered before, it repays us for all the 
