120 ; THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID 
SOCIETY. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester 
on March oth, 1899, when the following members of the Committee were 
present :—Messrs. G. Shorland Ball (in the chair), W. Thompson, T. 
Statter, A. Warburton, H. Greenwood, J. Leemann, G. W. Law-Schohield, 
P. Weathers, J. Cypher, R. Johnson, W. Stevens, J. Robson, and T. Mills. 
The meeting was most successful from every point of view. Ninety-six 
plants were submitted to the Committee for separate awards, and one 
groups of miscellaneous Orchids were staged. The quality of the exhibits 
was very high, as will be seen from the particulars given below, and the 
Committee were busily engaged for over two hours in adjudicating upon 
the plants brought before them. The awards numbered eighteen First-class 
Certificates, twenty-five Awards of Merit, seven Cultural Certificates, and 
three Medals. The number of awards seems large, but the exhibits were So 
meritorious that it was impossible to pass them by. As it was, many first- 
class varieties received no recognition. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), showed 
Dendrobium xX Thompsonianum (nobile Cypheri x cheltenhamense) to 
which an Award of Merit was given, and a very select group of Odonto- 
glossums, including O. xX excellens spectabile, O. X Wilckeanum 
concinnum, O. crispum Daphne, O. c. Yellow Gem, and O. luteo- 
purpureum radiatum, for which he received a Silver Medal. 
G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Gibbons), showed Den- 
drobiam Wardianum ochroleucum, which has already received a First-class 
Certificate from the Society. 
Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield (gr. Mr. Johnson), 
showed two magnificent plants of Ccelogyne cristata alba, which received 
both a First-class Certificate and Cultural Certificate, Dendrobium x 
splendissium grandiflorum (Cultural Certificate), D. x s. giganteum (Award 
of Merit), D. nobile nobilius (Cultural Certificate), D. n. giganteum, a 
n. Sanderianum. D.n. Cooksonianum, D. xX Leechianum, D. X Ainsworth, 
and Odontoglossum X mulus. This exhibitor also staged a very fine group 
of miscellaneous Orchids, including the above and many others, for which 
a Silver Medal was awarded. 4 
' Samuel Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range (gr. Mr. McLeod), sais 
Dendrobium X Rubens grandiflorum (Award of Merit), D. x Luna (Awa 
of Merit), D. Wardianum album (Award of Merit), D. x Harold McLeod: 
ianum (Linawianum xX _ Findlayanum), Cypripedium X Lebaudianum 
(Award of Merit), C. x Prewettii and Odontoglossum X Andersoniapum 
(Cultural Certificate). 
