70 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (MarcH, 1917, 
A Large Silver Medal was awarded to R. Ashworth, Esq,, Newchurch 
(gr. Mr. Davenport), for a very fine group, in which Odontoglossums and 
Odontiodas, with the Cattleya group, were prominently represented. 
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Messrs. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, were awarded a Silver Medal for 
a good group of Cypripediums, Calanthes, and white forms of Lelia anceps, 
with the rare Masdevallia gargantua, Ccelogyne intermedia, and others. 
Interesting exhibits were staged by Mrs. Gratrix, Whalley Range (gr. 
Mr. Jemmison) ; P. Smith, Esq., Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Thompson) ; 
Dr. Craven Moore, Victoria Park, Manchester (gr. Mr. T. Arran) ; John 
Hartley, Esq., Morley (gr. Mr. Coope); Messrs. J. & A. McBean, Cooks- 
bridge, Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, and Mr. W. Shackleton, Brad- 
ford, a number of which appear in the above list of awards. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 4 
WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during 
March, on the 13th and 27th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on March 1st and. 15th. 
The Committee sits at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 1 to4 p.m. The following meeting is fixed for April 5th. 
We learn that Mr. F. Gover has been appointed gardener to R. G. 
Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham, Mr. E. Hannington having been 
called to the colours. 
The Horticultural Directory and Year Book has reached its fifty-eighth 
year of publication, and a copy of the issue for 1917, which has just reached 
us, show that it is as indispensable as ever to horticulturists. There 
is a County Directory of the principal gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, 
also one of Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists, as well as an alph- 
abetical list of gardeners, with lists of Horticultural Societies, Schools 
and Colleges, Parks, &c. The Novelties of 1916 include descriptive lists of 
the plants certificated by the Royal Horticultural and other Societies, and 
the Obituary for the year includes, under the heading “‘ Pro Patria,” 
particulars of twenty members of the profession who have given their lives 
in fighting for the Old Country and, we have not the slightest hesitation in 
saying, the cause of right and justice. It is published by the proprietors 
of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 41, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, 
London, W.C. : 
