n8 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, staged another fine 

 group, which gained a Silver Flora Medal. It contained some good forms 

 of Phaius X Normani, Epilaelia X Sylvia (L. cinnabarina X Epidendrum 

 Cooperianum), an interesting hybrid most like the latter in shape, the sepals 

 and petals orange-red in colour, and the lip rose-purple with a pale centre, 

 Angraecum Sanderianum, Odontoglossum triumphans Wilsoni, identified by 

 W. Marshall, Esq., with a plant for which he received a First-class 

 Certificate in 1889, O. X Adrians Duchess of Cornwall, a beautiful yellow 

 spotted flower, Dendrobium X Ainsworthii intertextum. D. X Apollo album, 

 Cypripedium X Berkeley! (bellatulum X Boxallii), C. X Godiva 

 (Chamberlainianum X niveum), &c. 



Messrs. Stanley, Ashton & Co., Southgate, received a Silver Banksian 

 Medal for a good group, containing a fine series of Laelia Jongheana, with 

 about forty flowers, and some good Lycaste Skinneri and Cymbidium X 

 eburneo-Lowianum. 



Messrs. Linden & Co., Brussels, received Awards of Merit for Cypri- 

 pedium Lawrenceanum, and for Odontoglossum crispum Miss Lucienne 

 Linden, a richly coloured variety, having a very large vinous-purple blotch 

 on each sepal, and some smaller spots on the petals and lip. They also 

 sent good forms of O. crispum, and O. X loochristiense, a good Dendrobium 

 Wardianum, and Phalaenopsis amabilis Rimestadiana, the group receiving 

 a Vote of Thanks. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, sent the handsome Lycaste 

 X Balliae, Laelia X Iona, Cypripedium X Shillianum, Cattleya Schilleriana, 

 C. Mendelii, and a good light form of C. Trianse. 



M. Fl. Claes, Brussels, showed the handsome Odontoglossum crispum 

 Trianae, O. X Andersonianum, and good forms of O. X Adrians and 

 O. crispum. 



MANCHESTER ORCHID. 



At the meeting of the Manchester Orchid Society held at the Coal 

 Exchange, Manchester, on February 20th, Awards of Merit were given to 

 Cypripedium x nitens Arle Court var., from O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Cattleya 

 Trianae W. Bass, from W. Bass, Esq., and Dendrobium x Schneiderianum 

 from Mr. W. Holmes. 



The plant called Lycaste x Charlesworthii, to which a First-class 



Certificate a 



Weathers as L. x Ballh 



i meeting (see page 94), is now noted by 



Ihere was a very fine display at the meeting held on March 6th, the 

 iwards including one Gold Medal, ten First-class Certificates, and six 

 \ wards of Merit. 



