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containing Cypripedium insigne Sandere, C.i. Ernesti, C. i. Sanderianum, 
C.i. Ballie, C. x Nandii, and other good hybrids, the handsome Lelia 
pumila gigantea, Cattleya Dowiana, &c., with a profusely flowered example 
of C. labiata in the centre. A Silver Banksian Medal was awarded. 
Mr. James Douglas, Great Bookham, sent the pretty little Léelia 
Briseis and Lelio-cattleya x Gottoiana Mrs. Douglas (C. Warneri 2 X 
L. tenebrosa ¢), a form with very light sepals and petals, to which an 
Award of Merit was given. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, sent a fine example of Cym- 
bidium Tracyanum 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during December, on the 4th and 
18th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock, 
noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold a 
meeting at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on December 13th. The 
Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from I to 3 o’clock, p.m. 
We have received from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Brad- 
ford, a flower of the beautiful hybrid Cypripedium x Dora Crawshaw, to 
which a First-class Certificate was given by the Royal Horticultural 
Society on November 6th last. Its parents are C.bellatulum ? and C. 
Charlesworthii ¢, and the flower most resembles the former in shape and 
the latter in colour. The dorsal sepal is of a nearly uniform clear rose- 
purple shade, much darker than in C. Charlesworthii, and the broad petals 
are also very richly coloured, but more strongly reticulated and without 
the distinct rosy shade, while the staminode, though much enlarged, shows 
some of the porcelain white of C. Charlesworthii. It is very beautiful, and 
one of the most marked advances in colour in the group that we have seen. 
A remarkable flower of Odontoglossum X crispo-Harryanum is sent 
from the collection of T. Baxter, Esq., of Morecambe, by Mr. Roberts. It 
has four sepals, four petals, two lips placed side by side, and a broad double 
column with two anthers. It is from the plant to which a First-class 
Certificate was given by the Manchester Orchid Society on January 11th, 
1900, and is finely developed and very beautiful. 
A flower of O. crispum Ruby, which gained an Award of Merit at 
Manchester on October 23rd last, is also sent from the same collection. It 
