22 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, 1910. 
received a First-class Certificate for Odontioda keighley-nsis, Fowler’s var. 
(C. Noetzliana X O. cirrhosum), a remarkably fine variety. 
M. F. Lambeau, Brussels, received a First-class Certificate for Lzelio- 
cattleya Firminii (L.-c. Ceres x C. Dowiana aurea), a very handsome 
hybrid, comparable with the latter in size, and haying flame-coloured sepals 
and petals, and a crimson lip, with two yellow blotches in the throat, and 
some yellow lines at the base. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O.. Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium x Alabaster 
magnificum (Godseffianum X Alcibiades superbum), a very fine hybrid, most 
like the latter, and having broad yellowish petals and lip, tinged with purple 
brown, and a white dorsal sepal, with a purple band up the centre and some 
smaller lateral lines, a small area at the base being green. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, sent Oncidium X 
hybridum (tigrinum xX lamelligerum), a very interesting hybrid and the 
first raised by hand, the Certificate of Appreciation being awarded. It is 
described at page 8. They also received a First-class Certificate for 
Zygocolax Charlesworthii var. rubida (Z. ™X Perrenoudi x Colax 
jugosus), a very fine variety, with cream white sepals and petals heavily 
barred with reddish purple and the lip ruby-red, shaded with purple. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, received a First-class Certificate for 
Dendrobium Phalzenopsis album, Sander’s var., a very fine pure white form, 
and for Cypripedium x Mrs. F. Sander (Eve xX insigne Sanderz), a 
beautiful greenish-yellow flower, with the greater part of the dorsal sepal 
white, and the petals and lip tinged with light purple. 
Several other good things were shown beside those certificated, but there 
was no general show on this date. Cypripedium xX Caruso (J. Howes xX. 
insigne Harefield Hall var.) was an interesting thing shown by Col. Holford, 
and most resembled the second parent, though with more purple markings. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 
A meeting was held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on 
November 18th, when there was a very good show, and over eighty plants 
were placed before the Committee, the following members being present: 
Messrs. E. Ashworth (Chairman), Thorp, Cowan, Ward, Warburton, 
Sander, Keeling, Shill, Cypher, Parker, and, by invitation, Mr. J. T. Clifton. 
Z. A. Ward, Esq., Cringlewood, Northenden (gr. Mr. Weatherby), staged 
a specially fine group of mixed plants, which well merited the Silver-gilt 
Medal awarded. The bulk of the group was composed of very fine pots of 
Cypripedium insigne Sandere, several of them bearing upwards of a dozen 
well-developed flowers. Intermixed with them were other varieties of C. 
