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nobile Ballianum, for a large plant of Dendrobium Boxallii with a dozen 
blooms, for a fine Odontoglossun triumphans, for Angraecum sesquipedale 
with ten blooms, for Cattleya Lawrenceana Hyeana, with a deep-purple 
lip, and for the best Masdevallia, with the orange-red M. X Pourbaixii. 
M. Van Beerleere, Mont-St.-Amand, showed groups of thirty and 
fifteen Cypripediums. He had also the best dozen examples of one species 
suitable for use in apartments, Odontoglossum crispum. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co. showed a fine natural hybrid Odontoglossum, 
called O. X Prince Albert, with handsome yellow flowers blotched with 
brown. 
MANCHESTER ROYAL BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
THE great annual Whitsuntide show of this Society was held at the 
Gardens, Old Trafford, from May 19th to 25th, and, as usual, attracted a 
large number of Orchids, though the display was not equal to that seen on 
several previous occasions, and the very few exhibits from amateurs was 
specially remarked. For this falling off, however, several causes may be 
assigned, which, collectively, must have had some influence on the exhibits. 
The season is very backward, in proof of which we may mention that Mr. 
Statter, who for the last four years has carried off the prize for the best 
Cattleyas and Leelias, failed to get his plants out in time. Then the great 
Temple Show on this occasion followed almost immediately ; besides which, 
there is a slight falling off in the prizes, and we do not notice any special 
awards in the schedule, as on some previous occasions. Added to this, 
there is a feeling, which was voiced by Mr. Thompson, at the luncheon, 
that the show is too long, and that the plants suffer in consequence. 
The trade exhibits, however, were numerous and good, as will be seen from 
the following report. The arrangements for the show were in the hands of 
Mr. P. Weathers, secretary and curator, and were admirably carried out. 
The Judges for Orchids were: Mr. A. Hislop, gr. to H. S. Leon, Esq., 
of Bletchley Park, and Mr. W. H. Young, Orchid grower to Sir Frederick 
Wigan, of East Sheen. 
The first prize for the best collection of Orchids in bloom (nurserymen) 
was carried off by Mr. James Cypher, of Cheltenhem, with a splendid 
group which filled the end of the exhibition house, and was very tastefully’ 
arranged in two curved bays. In the background were many good examples 
of Lelia purpurata, with a few other large things, as Cymbidium Lowianum, 
Epidendrum radicans, E. X O’Brienianum, &c., while suspended in the 
centre were a number of well-flowered examples of Oncidium concolor and 
Sophronitis grandiflora, the scarlet and yellow forming a very effective 
