‘Odontos, and a very pretty form of Trichopilia suavis, for 
nice group of Dendrobiums, for which a 
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The Royal Manchester Botanical Society made the following awards for 
Orchid groups :-— 
Mr. Cypher, Large Gold Medal. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Gold Medal. 
J. Leemann, Esq., Gold Medal. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Gold Medal. 
Mr. J. Robson, Gold Medal. 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Silver Medal. 
T. Baxter, Esq., Silver Medal. 
E. H. Seddon, Esq., Silver Medal. 
Messrs. H. Low & Co., Silver Medal. | 
At the meeting held on April 2€th, there was again a very good display, 
and the following members of the Committee were present :—Messrs. G. 
Shorland Ball (in the Chair), Leeman, Parker, Holmes, Cypher, Johnson, 
and Weathers (hon. sec.). 
G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Gibbons), showed a 
wonderfully grown plant of Angrecum Sanderianum, carrying between 
_ eighty and ninety blooms:on three spikes, to which a Cultural Certificate 
was given (see figure on page 145), a fine specimen plant of Dendrobium X 
melanopthalmum, with five strong, flowering bulbs (A.M.), D. nobile 
Ballianum (A.M.), and D. x Juno (F.C.). 
Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall (gr. Mr. Johnson), showed the 
beautiful Cattleya intermedia alba, which received a First-class Certificate 
last year, and which was now shown in robust health (Cult. Cert.), C. 
Mendelii superba, and Dendrobium Hildebrandii album. 
W. Duckworth, Esq., Flixton (gr. Mr. Tindall), showed Lelia pur- 
purata Victoria, with white sepals and petals, and a good coloured lip, but 
poor in form. 
Thomas Baxter, Esq., Morecambe (gr. Mr. Roberts), showed Odonto- 
glossum crispum Mrs. Thomas Baxter (A.M.), and O. c. augusta (A.M.), 
both good forms with white ground, blotched with claret-brown, . 
Adrianz Baxteri (F.C.), and O. X A. Oakfield variety, both very pretty forms, 
with yellowish ground blotched and spotted with dark red brown. This 
exhibitor staged a group comprising the above and several other good 
which a Vote of 
Thanks was awarded. 
O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury (gr- Mr. Rogers), staged a very 
Vote of Thanks was awarded. 
Mr. Pidsley), showed Odonto- 
R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch (gr. : : 
O. polyxanthum, Miltomia 
glossum x Adrianz, well grown (Cult. Cert.), oe 
yexillaria, Oncidium cucullatum, and Masdevallia X Pourbaixu. 
