250 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Nov.-DEc., 1917. 
lise | OBITUARY. pets 
SWALD OSMOND WRIGLEY.—We deeply regret to record the 
death of Mr. O. O. Wrigley, Bridge Hall, Bury, which took 
place on November 11th, at the age of 81 years. Mr. Wrigley has been 
an enthusiastic amateur of Orchids for a period of fifty-live years. He 
began to grow Orchids in 1862, the year he was married, when he purchased 
fifty Orchids at £1 each. Heat once began to study their requirements, 
and soon found that all could not be grown together, and the next step was 
to provide the different houses necessary. He took a keen personal interest 
in all cultural details, and never gave up a species until he succeeded in 
growing it well or in satisfying himself that it was unsuitable for the 
district. Cypripediums have long been among his chief favourites, and for 
the last twenty years he has purchased most of the best that could be had, 
besides raising a large number of seedlings, annually weeding out those that 
did not come up to his standard. At the present these plants occupy six 
houses, besides which there are two houses of Odontoglossums, one of 
Cattleyas and allies, one of Lycastes, one of Cymbidiums, and one of 
Epidendrum vitellinum and Odontoglossum grande, the remaining three 
being devoted to miscellaneous warm-growing species, including some very 
fine Phalenopsis amabilis Rimestadiana, deciduous Calanthes, Dendrobium 
Phalenopsis, and numerous miscellaneous subjects. Mr. Wrigley was one 
of the original founders of the Manchester Orchid Society, and the 
excellence of the groups staged by him at its meetings has often been 
remarked. The health and vigour of the plants has also impressed us on 
the two or three occasions that we have had the pleasure of seeing the 
collection. We may also recall the noble specimen of Anguloa Clowesii 
exhibited by Mr. Wrigley at a meeting of the Royal Botanic and Horti- 
cultural Society of Manchester, in June, 1878, to which a Veitch Memorial 
Medal was awarded. It was one of a group of sixteen Orchids which 
gained the first prize, and was described as fully three feet across the base, 
and bearing nearly fifty of its rich golden cups, and a crown of perfectly- 
developed leaves—a picture of health and freshness, and magnificently 
bloomed. It had been grown on from one or two bulbs, and was not made 
up in any way. 
Mr. Wrigley was for years one of our most constant correspondents, 
and the flowers and photographs received from him have been both 
numerous and beautiful, and some of them have been illustrated in our 
pages, among which we may mention the fine group of Cypripedium 
Fairrieanum figured at page g of our eighteenth volume, and of Dendrobium 
Phalzenopsis used as the Frontispiece of the succeeding one. His name is 
