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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 369 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID 
SOCIETY. 
THE first meeting of the month was held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, 
_ on November gth. Present : — Messrs. Shorland Ball (in the chair), 
Thompson, Leemann, Parker, Warburton, Cypher, Johnson, and Weathers 
(hon. sec.). 
A very fine display was forthcoming at this meeting, and from the new 
names we see cropping up from time to time it is evident that the love of 
Orchids is greatly on the increase in the neighbourhood of Manchester. 
The mode of granting awards by this Society, viz., purely upon the merits 
of the flower exhibited, without regard to the fact of its having been 
previously certificated, appears to keep up the interest of members in the 
meetings, and induces them to send up their plants, and we are very pleased 
to be able to congratulate the Society upon the excellent display of exhibits 
staged. 
G. Shorland Ball, Esq., Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Gibbons), showed a very 
fine form of Oncidium Forbesii, and Cypripedium xX Actens, the same 
plant shown at the last meeting of the Society, but the flower was now 
much more expanded and richer in colour (First-class Certificate). This 
exhibitor also staged an interesting miscellaneous group, amongst which 
we noticed the beautiful terra-cotta Lycaste X Balliz,a fine plant of Cypri- 
pedium insigne albens with six flowers, C. i. aureum, C. X Leeanum 
magnificum, C. X Moensii, and several well-grown Oncidium varicosum 
O. Forbesii, and Dendrobium formosum giganteum. 
Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall (gr. Mr. Johnson), showed the 
magnificent Cattleya x Hardyana Countess of Derby, seen for the first 
time at this Society’s meetings, and to which a First-class Certificate and 
a Silver-gilt Medal were given, also C. Bowringiana Stand Hall variety, a 
wonderfully round flower of good colour and substance (First-class 
Certificate), Lelio-cattleya x Statteriana (A.M.), and a good form on. 
labiata. This exhibitor also staged a very fine group, in which the above 
were included, together with many fine specimens of Cattleya Dowiana 
aurea, C. labiata, and Dendrobium Phalznopsis, and to which a Silver- 
gilt Medal was awarded. 
J. Leemann, Esq., Heaton Mersey (gr. Mr. Edge), showed Cattleya 
labiata Sir George White, a most beautiful full and round form of flower, 
with pure white petals and sepals, and the lip with dark purple centre 
and a white margin (First-class Certificate), C. 1. The Czar, and a Cypripe- 
dium seedling (villosum x Harrisianum superbum), an interesting and 
pretty hybrid which the Committee expressed a wish to see again. This 
exhibitor also staged a splendid group amongst which were included the 
