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yellowish, tinged with rose, the broad petals rather darker, and the strongly 

 three-lobed lip having the front lobe rose coloured, veined with purple, and 

 the yellowish side lobes tinged with purple at the tip. 



F. Simonds, Esq., Woodthorpe, Beckenham (gr. Mr. Day), received a 

 Cultural Commendation for a fine plant of Grammangis Ellisii, bearing a 

 raceme of twenty-five flowers. 



W. C. Walker, Esq., Winchmore Hill (gr. Mr. Cragg), received a 

 Cultural Commendation for a very well-grown and flowered example of 

 Dendrobium Falconeri, trained in an upright position. 



J. F. Alcock, Esq., Northchurch, sent a hybrid Sobralia, in appearance 

 like S. X Veitchiana, having yellowish flowers tinged with rose. 



De B. Crawshay, Rosefleld, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), showed 

 Odontoglossum X loochristiense Theodora, having broad, nearly white 

 segments, irregularly blotched with brown, chiefly on the sepals, and a 

 large brown blotch in front of the yellow crest of the lip. 



Mrs. Haywood, Woodhatch, Reigate (gr. Mr. Salter), showed Cypri" 

 pedium x Harri-Leeanum, a fine hybrid between C. X Harrisianum 

 superbum and C. x Leeanum, most resembling the former, of which flowers 

 were also sent for comparison. 



R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Smith), 

 showed Physosiphon Loddigesii, bearing several racemes of flowers. 



Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), showed 

 the tine white Cypripedium X Antigone (niveum X Lawrenceanum), having 

 the flowers slightly tinged with rose, and lined with rows of purple dots. 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, showed a small group of hybrids, 

 including Laelio-cattleya X Aphrodite alba, with six flowers, L.-c. X Norba 

 (C. Mossiae X L. xanthina), having white sepals and petals, slightly tinged 

 with yellow, and the lip rose with some crimson-purple veining ; Laelia X 

 Helen Veitch's variety (Digbyana X tenebrosa), having the sepals and 

 petals greenish white, tinged with rose, and the lip sulphur yellow at the 

 the base, and lined with purple, with the front lobe rose-coloured ; the fine 

 Cattleya X Atalanta, with four flowers on a spike, together with the 

 handsome Cypripedium X W. R. Lee. 



MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 



AT the meeting held on June 5 th, Silver Medals were awarded to R. 

 Ashworth, Esq., and Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., and Bronze Medals to 

 W. Duckworth Esq., W. E. Watson, Esq., and Mr. J. Cypher, for groups. 

 A Bronze Medal was also given for a beautiful group of thirteen plants of 

 t^lT^V™^ * *•»"** ^ld on June xoth, a Silver- 



to R. 



3ury, Esq., and Bronze Medals 



