THE ORCHID REVIEW. 347 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID 
SOCIETY. 
AT the meeting of this Society, held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on 
October 13th last, there was a very good display of Orchids. The members 
of the Committee present were :—Messrs. G. Shorland Ball (in the chair), 
W. Thompson, Parker, Cypher, Stevens, Johnson, Upjohn, and Weathers 
(hon, sec.). 
G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Gibbons), staged an 
Interesting group, amongst which were two plants of Oncidium 
ornithorhynchum album, one of which carried two strong spikes of bloom, 
and received a First Class Certificate, a magnificent plant of O. tigrinum, 
carrying a flower spike with eighty flowers and buds, which obtained a 
Cultural Certificate. Cypripedium X Moensii, a fine specimen plant 
eying five flowers, and which received a First-class Certificate from this 
Society on roth November, 1898 (vol. vi., p. 371), a very good form of C. 
bellatulum, a plant of the pretty C. purpuratum with three flowers, Vanda 
Kimballiana, and Trichopilia fragrans. 
Samuel Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range (gr. Mr. McLeod), showed 
Sophrocattleya X Cleopatra, a most beautiful and distinct hybrid, with 
flowers of the brilliant red of the best Sophronitis grandiflora (First-class 
Certificate), Cypripedium insigne, C. x tessellatum porphryeum (A. M.), 
and Lelio-cattleya x Ingramii (A. M.). 
W. Thompson, Esq., Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), showed Odontoglossum 
‘tispum Daphne, a very distinct form with large spots of a curious light 
Purple colour (First-class Certificate), and a very fine form of Miltonia 
‘pectabilis Moreliana, which the Committee expressed a desire to see when 
, “ Plant had grown stronger. The same exhibitor also staged a 
Miscellaneous group, amongst which the plants named above, and a very 
fine specimen of Vanda Kimballiana with several good spikes, were 
Conspicuous. 
J. Leemann, Esq., Heaton Mersey (gt. Mr. Edge), showed Lelio- 
Cattleya x Clonia, a very pretty hybrid between Lzlio-cattleya x elegans 
and C. Warscewiczii Sanderiana, and which would no doubt have secured 
‘n award had the sepals and petals been of better form, and L.-c. x 
Antimachus (C. Warscewiczii x L.-c. X Dominiana), a pretty ve 
fairly intermediate (Award of Merit). 
Mr. Upjohn, gardener to the Earl of Ellesmere, showed a very fine 
Spike of a good form of the beautiful Cymbidium eayanae. | 
Mr. James Cypher, Cheltenham, showed an interesting mp, amongst 
Which were noticeable Cypripedium X Moensii (First-class Certificate), 
and several good forms ot Cattleya labiata. 
