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doubt to a great extent, to the encouragement given to cultivators by the 
Manchester and North of England Orchid Society. 
First honours on this occasion fell to E. Ashworth, Esq., of Wilmslow, 
who obtained the large Gold Medal of the Society for a wonderfully good 
group. A First-class Certificate was awarded: to a new form of 
Dendrobium, named D. nobile Ashworthianum. This is a very beautiful 
albino, of an entire greenish white, but we are somewhat doubtful as to its 
being a true nobile. It is a most interesting and pretty torm, but may be 
anatural hybrid. Cattleya Triane Ashworthii also obtained a First-class 
Certificate. It is an imported plant, flowering for the first time in this 
country. The bloom is very large and of very good substance, with nearly 
white sepals and petals and showing rather more colour in the lip, but it is 
a little wanting in form. Another, named C. T. Arthur Ashworth is distinct 
and excellent, and obtained a First-class Certificate. C. T. Harefield Hall 
variety, a very beautiful flower with pure white petals and sepals of 
excellent form, and with very dark lip, also obtained a First-class Certificate. 
Mr. Ashworth’s group was also remarkable for the number of rare and 
beautiful Dendrobiums it contained. Besides the plant we have already 
named there was a very distinct form of D. Wardianum which was quite 
yellow in colour in those parts which in the typical variety are white; this 
was named Beatrice Ashworth, and obtained a First-class Certificate. 
The handsome D, W. Harefield variety also obtained a First-class 
Certificate. It is near the variety ochroleucum, but has a slight indication 
of the eyes seen in the type, which are entirely absent in D. W. ochro- 
leucum. Other beautiful Dendrobiums we noticed were D. X Rainbow, 
and a fine specimen plant of D. x splendidissimum grandiflorum, which, 
with many other fine and rare forms, went to make up an exceedingly fine 
exhibit. 
The next exhibit in point of merit was that staged by Mr. James Cypher, 
of Cheltenham, which obtained the Society’s Gold Medal, and consisted of 
an exceptionally large number of well-grown plants arranged with great 
taste and in the pink of condition. The most striking plant in the 
collection was, we thought, a form of Cattleya Triane, to which no 
varietal name had been assigned. It was a beautiful compact flower with 
pink petals and sepals, of good form and substance, and the lip well open 
with very dark maroon blotch on the front lobe, ending with an 
exceptionally sharply defined line against a pure white band which merged 
into a delicate lemon colour and then became darker in the throat. It 
obtained a First-class Certificate. Another good thing was Cattleya 
Warneri, which received an Award of Merit. A noticeable plant was ~ 
Cypripedium villosum magnificum, with very large flowers, the dorsal 
sepal being much greener than in the type. This, too, obtained a First- 
