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cattleya heatonensis, Cypripedium triumphans, A. de Lairesse, and others 
(Silver Banksian Medal). 
Messrs. Mansell and Hatcher, Rawdon, E. Yorks, exhibited Odontioda 
rawdoniensis (Odontoglossum armainvillierense x Odontioda Charles- 
worthii), a very brilliant and promising hybrid. The tiny plant bore a 
single flower, with very broad deep cherry-red sepals and petals, and 
a three-lobed lip, the crest of which was orange, and there was also a tint 
of orange on the front lobe. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CATTLEYA CYBELE (Lueddemanniana var. Baron Schréder x Gaskel- 
liana alba).—A fine blush white hybrid, with a large crimson-purple blotch 
on the front lobe of the lip, and the throat yellow. Exhibited by E. H. 
Davidson, Esq. 
L2LIOCATTLEYA ARMADA (L.-c. luminosa x C. fulvescens).—A very 
pretty hybrid, with fawn-coloured sepals and petals, and an open purple lip, 
with many pale yellow lines. Exhibited by Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, 
K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
ONCIDIUM CORYNEPHORUM.—To Messsrs. Armstrong and Brown, for 
a very finely-grown plant, bearing a panicle with seven side branches, and 
an aggregate of twenty-five of its beautiful white and purple flowers. This 
beautiful species received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. in 
October, 1905, when exhibited from the collection of E. Ashworth, Esq., 
Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. Its history was given at Pp. 334-336 of our 
thirteenth volume. The figure given at page 321 represents Mr. Ashworth’s 
plant about one-fourth natural size. 
MANCHESTER & NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 
AT the meeting held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on August 2ist, 
the members of Committee present were :—Rev. J. Crombleholme (in the 
Chair), Messrs. J. Bamber, E. H. Davidson, A. G. Ellwood, H. Hanmer, 
A. J. Keeling, D. McLeod, W. Shackleton, H. Thorp, Z. A. Ward, 
G. Weatherby, A. Warburton, and H. Arthur (Secretary). 
R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch (gr. Mr. Gilden), staged a nice mixed 
§toup, to which a Silver-gilt Medal was awarded. Odontoglossums were 
well represented, including O. crispum xanthotes Charlesworthii, O. c. 
Perfection and O. c. Wellmanii, with Odontioda Charlesworthii, Miltonia 
vexillaria superba, Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, Hardyana, and Caduceus, 
Cypripedium Maudiz, Transvaal, Harrisianum superbum, Oporto, Rolfei, 
and Lord Derby, a fine example of Vanda ccerulea carrying twenty-four 
flowers on two spikes, and others. 
A. Warburton, Esq., Haslingden (gr. Mr. Dalgleish), was awarded a 
