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and a large well-coloured form of Lelia pumila preestans (Award of Merit). 
A. Warburton, Esq., Vine House, Haslingden (gr. Mr. Lofthouse), 
exhibited the beautiful yellow Cypripedium insigne Laura Kimball, a form 
somewhat approaching C. 1. Ganehe to which a First-class Certificate 
was given. 
T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield (gr. Mr. Johnson), sent the 
handsome Cypripedium xX Moensii (Award of Merit), the large and richly- 
coloured C. xX triumphans, Lzlio-cattleya x elegans chelsonensis (Award 
of Merit), the handsome L.-c. X callistoglossa (Award of Merit), and 
Cattleya X Parthenia. 
John Leemann, Esq., West Bank House, Heaton Mersey (gr. Mr. Edge), 
sent a good plant of Cattleya Dowiana aurea, with a very broad dark lip, 
and the rare Anguloa eburnea (Award of Merit). 
E, J. Sidebotham, Esq., Erlesdene, Bowdon (gr. Mr. Shiner), showed 
an exceptionally fine form of Cattleya Lueddemanniana (speciosissima), to 
which an Award of Merit was given. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton Nursery, exhibited Cattleya X 
Minucia and Cypripedium x Alfred Hollington, each of which received 
an Award of Merit. 
Mr. James Cypher, Cheltenham, sent a curious kone: coloured variety 
of Oncidium Jonesianum, to which an Award of Merit was given. 
The display of Orchids on September 23rd was very similar in extent 
and quality to that of the two previous meetings, nine Awards of Merit and 
one First-class Certificate being granted, and the occasion was further 
celebrated by the issue of the first Gold Medal yet presented by the Society. 
In design it is a facsimile of the Silver one. 
» John Leemann, Esq., West Bank House, Heaton Mersey (gr. Mr. Edge), 
staged a fine group of good Orchids, effectively arranged among maiden-hair 
ferns, to which a Silver Medal was given. It contained some good examples 
of Odontoglossum grande, O. crispum, and other Odontoglots, some well- 
flowered Cattleyas, and an assortment of other Orchids which flower at this 
season. The beautiful Phaius x Ashworthianus, in which the characters of 
P.Wallichii var. Mannii and P maculatus are well blended, received an Award 
of Merit. A pleasing design in Orchid flowers, with a portrait of Darwin 
on the obverse, was also exhibited, and to this the Society’s Gold Medal was 
awarded. 
The Ven. Archdeacon Rawstone, Balderstone Grange, Blackburn, 
showed an exceptionally fine Miltonia spectabilis atrorubens, a splendidly 
grown plant with over a dozen flowers, to which a First-class Certificate 
was given. 
William Bolton, Esq., Wilderspool, exhibited a choice group, including 
a good Cattleya Eldorado splendens, C. superba with six-flowered spike, a 
