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var., and an Award of Merit for a fine dark form of Cypripedium 
Rothschildianum. Messrs. John Cowan and Co. received First-class 
Certificates for Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Hyeanum and Ccelogyne 
pandurata, an Award of Merit for Cattleya Mendelii Beauty of Ladysmith, 
and Cultural Certificates for Cattleya Mossiz with over fifty flowers, and a 
well-grown Odontoglossum crispum. Messrs. Charlesworth and Co. 
received a First-class Certificate for a pretty, clear yellow form of Odonto- 
glossum crispum, and Awards of Merit for O. c. Imperator, Cattleya 
Mossiz magnifica, Cypripedium X Vipani, C. xX Chapmanii heatonense, 
and Lycaste X Balli#. Mr. J. Cypher received Awards of Merit for 
Cattleya Mossiz Distinction and Lelia purpurata Queen Empress. 
Mr. John Robson received an Award of Merit for Cattleya Mossiz 
fimbriata, and a Cultural Certificate for a beautiful plant of C. Mendelii 
with about twenty flowers. Messrs. Hugh Low and Co, received an 
Award of Merit for a pretty light form of Odontoglossum xX Andersonianum. 
Fred Hardy, Esq., Ashton-on-Mersey, showed, under a bell glass, a 
plant of the brilliant little Sophrocattleya X Hardyana. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID 
: SOCIETY. 
A MEETING of this Society was held on Tuesday, June 5th, the place of 
venue being the Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, where the usual 
Whitsuntide Show of the Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of 
Manchester was in progress, the result being a fine display of Orchids, 
including several good groups. 
_ . The members of the Committee present were :—Messrs. G. Shorland 
Ball (in the chair), Leemann, Law-Schofield, Gratrix, Baxter, Duckworth, 
Warburton, Parker, Cypher, Robson, Holmes, Johnson, and Weathers 
(Hon. Sec.).. ; 
+ G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Gibbons) showed an 
exceedingly fine form of Odontoglossum X loochristiense, with dark yellow 
ground, heavily spotted and splashed with red, and the petals deeply 
_ serrated (F.C.), a very good form of O. x Wilckeanum (A.M.), a good 
O. X crispo-Harryanum (A.M.), O. crispum, Cypripedium callosum 
Sandere with a very large and well-formed flower, which has already 
been certificated by the Society, a very dark form of Dendrobium Victoria- 
Regina, and a fine specimen plant of Diacrium bicornutum carrying seven 
spikes (Cult. Cert.) The group received a Vote of Thanks. 
_ .J. Leemann, Esq., Heaton Mersey (gr. Mr. Edge), showed a fine hybrid 
Cattleya (Mossie x Lawrenceana), C. Mossiz Hardyana, C. M. Wageneri, 
C. M. alba, Lelio-cattleya x Eudora alba (F.C.), L.-c. * Edouard André 
