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to us to have some Adriane blood init. The ground was white, slightly — 
tinged with pink, and the petals and sepals were heavily blotched and 
spotted with claret, the form good and the spike carrying eight flowers 
(Silver Medal and F.C.), O. X cuspidatum nobilior, a flower of very good 
form with clear markings (A.M.), and O. x elegans St. Albans variety, an 
exceedingly fine form with greenish yellow ground spotted and blotched 
with dark claret (F.C.). 
Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York, showed Odontoglossum xX Rucker- 
ianum, O. X Adriane, Dendrobium nobile Amesiz, D.'n. Virgil, in the 
way of Ashworthianum, D. Brymerianum, and several good Cattleyas. A 
Vote of Thanks was awarded for the group. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Bradford, staged a very effective group, to 
which a Silver-gilt Medal was awarded, and amongst which were Cattleya 
Schroederee alba (A.M.), C. S. Prince Patrick, a form with red labellum, 
very distinct (A.M.), Odontoglossum crispum (? Adrianz) Duke of Con- 
naught, with white ground, heavily spotted with bright red-brown, and 
carrying a fine spike of fourteen flowers, a remarkably pretty form (F.C.), 
O. nebulosum album (F.C.), Epilelia x radico-purpurata, Lzlio-cattleya — 
x highburyensis, a fine pan of Sophronitis grandiflora, Phaius X Marthe, 
and several good specimen Cymbidiums. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, staged a select group, for 
which they received a Vote of Thanks, and amongst which we noticed 
Cattleya Triane Empress of India, a beautiful form with pure white sepals 
and petals and pink lip (F.C.), C. T. ccerulescens, a very round flower 
with pure white sepals and petals and a bluish lip (A.M.), C. T. gloriosa, a 
good form with very dark lip, C. speciosissima Lowiz, a wonderful variety . 
with immense flat lip, beautifully veined in the way of Reineckiana, and 
sepals and petals of a delicate pink (F.C.), C. Schroeder grandis, with very 
large and well-coloured lip, and a very dark Odontoglossum triumphans. 
Mr. John Robson, Altrincham, staged a large and excellent group, con- 
sisting of good specimen plants of Dendrobiums, and many good forms of 
Cattleya Mendelii, 
gigantea, Dendrobiu 
Pescatorei, and a fine O. crispum. A Silyer Medal was awarded. 
Mr. A. J. Keeling, Bingley, staged a nice group of miscellaneous Orchids 
for which he was awarded a Vote of Thanks. It included a very fine form 
of Lelia Jongheana (Gd Latona, 
D. xX Edithe, D. x Cybele, D. x euos 
selligerum majus, 
(Curtisii x Stonei), 
and amongst which we noticed C. M. aurea, C. M. 
Dendrobium crassinode album, 
mum leucopterum, Cypripedium 
an exceptionally fine form (F.C.) C. x Constance 
and C. Sir Geoge White (Boxallii xX Stonei). 
Mr. E. Mitchell, Sale, showed Dendrobium nobile nobilius xX D: 
tortile roseum, 
m nobile nobilius (A.M.), a good form of Odontoglossum — * 
