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Shill), sent three promising hybrids raised in the collection, Sophrocattleya: 
Delta (C. Fabia X Sc. Doris), Cypripedium Mrs. de Laszlo (Beeckmanii: 
X Germaine Opoix), most like the former, and having an emerald green, 
heavily blotched dorsal sepal with white margin, and richly-coloured sepals: 
and petals, and C. Vesuvius (fulshawense X Beeckmanii). 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a magnificent 
group of Orchids, with a frontage of about forty feet, to which a Gold: 
Medal was awarded. The leading feature was a series of over sixty plants 
of the beautiful Cattleya Maggie-Raphael var. alba, having white sepals. 
and petals and a coloured lip, a few of them being exceptionally fine. We 
noted also several examples of C. Moira, C. Venus Queen of Yellows, 
Brassocattleya Mars, a pretty hybrid between Cypripedium glaucophyllum 
and X Curtisii, C. Bassano X Fairrieanum, C. Niobe, and many other 
good things, with a number of promising seedling Odontiodas and Odonto- 
glossums in the centre. The plants were well grown and very tastefully 
arranged, forming an altogether excellent exhibit. 
(To be concluded.) 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 
At the meeting held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on November™ 
26th, the members of Committee present were: Rev. J. Crombleholme - 
(in the chair), Messrs. R. Ashworth, D. A. Cowan, J. C. Cowan, Dr. Craven: 
Moore, J. Cypher, A. G. Ellwood, J. Evans, P. Foster, W. Gilden, A. R. 
Handley, A. Hanmer, F. Houghton, J. Lupton, D. McLeod, W. Shackle- 
ton, S. Swift, H. Thorp, and H. Arthur (Sec.). 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATES. 
Odontoglossum Mars (parentage unknown), a flower of good form and 
shape, four inches across, of solid deep claret colour with white margin (a 
Silver Medal was also awarded), and O. crispum xanthotes Rayon d’Or, 
pure white, well marked with spots of primrose yellow, and the lip almost 
all yellow; from Dr. Craven Moore. 
Cypripedium Acteus ashlandense No. 3 (Lord Ossulston x Leeanum 
Clinkaberryanum), a well-set flower, with large white dorsal, and the green: 
base faintly spotted ; from P. Smith, Esq. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
Cattleya Alcimedia Snowstorm (labiata alba X Gaskelliana alba) ; C. 
Moira var. rubra (Fabia X Mantinii); Brassocattleya Nestor var. Brilliant 
(Bc. Maroniz xX C. labiata), and Odontoglossum Lambeauianim_ var. 
Torchlight ; from R. Ashworth, Esq. 
Cypripedium Britannia and Sophrocattleya Faboris (C. Fabia x Sc. 
Doris); from P. Smith, Esq. 
Cypripedium Conyngham (Alcibiades X Mrs. Mostyn); from Dr.. 
Craven Moore. 
