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_ Registration Committee,” because it seems to me that when exhibitors — 
_ themselves are on the Committees, although, of course, they do not vote on — 
their own exhibits, yet the committee appears to hesitate—to put it mildly— 
to do anything that may offend: e. g. (as noticed in your 6th par.), why 
did the Manchester Orchid Committee not cross out ‘‘ Leeman’s var.” 
from the name card on the Dendrobium nobile virginale? I agree with © 
you, what need for the addition? I have noticed before, that when a — 
grower has a unique thing he exhibits it with some extra, unnecessary — 
varietal formula attached, although it may have been recognized before 
| under a distinct name. I do not speak from the point of view of the — 
i | disappointed exhibitor, because I never exhibit, but I wonder where we 
: shall be in a few years’ time with all our varietal names, since, as time goes 
on, and finer varieties are intercrossed, who is going to remember them all? 
That, however, to my mind is not so much the point of objection as the: : 
_ fact that everything now is given a varietal name whether it be worthy or 
not. Why cannot the Orchid Committees correct the name cards, using — 
their own judgment, even if making no award, thus constituting in a way — 
a Registration Committee. I think a printed list of varieties would be a © 
boon, because we could then see which were really distinct: and why ) 
could it not be taken inhandat once? Those desirous of recording varieties. 4 
exhibited some time ago could send them again, while varieties which 
have received awards of course need not be sent again. This is the sort of = 
thing that I object to:—L.-c. x callistoglossa; L.-c. x callistoglossa — 
ignescens ; L.-c. X callistoglossa ignescens Argus’ variety; L.-c. X callis- 
_ toglossa ignescens Argusiana Kew Gardens variety ; &c., ad lib. : 
I hope that you will be able to move the authorities to do something. — 
X. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID 
SOCIETY. 
A MEETING was held at the Manchester Town Hall, on April roth, 1900, in 
conjunction with the Spring Show of the Royal Manchester and Northern 
Counties Botanical and Horticultural Society. ‘ 
_ The members of the Orchid Committee present were :—Messrs. G+ 
Shorland Ball (in the chair), Law-Schofield, Thompson, Leemann, Lovell, 
Baxter, Duckworth, Parker, Warburton, Holmes, Cypher, Upjohn, 
Johnson, Stevens, and Weathers (Hon. Sec.). : 
__ G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Gibbons), showed Odont 
'glossum x crispo-Harryanum. ‘a4 
W. Thompson, Esq., Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), staged a magnificent 
group of Odontoglossums, excellently cultivated, and for which a Silver 
