180 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
have had their parts bound separately will probably not regret it. Part X. 
is full of highly interesting and readable matter, which will be useful for 
future reference, and it must surely have been an oversight that there is 
neither an Index to this particular part, nor yet a list of the headings of 
“chapters,” as we may term them. The omission renders this part more 
difficult to consult than preceding ones. However, this and other matters 
will probably be remedied in a future edition. Messrs. Veitch are to be 
congratulated on the completion of this important work, which we recom- 
mend to our readers with the greatest confidence. 
THE MANCHESTER SHOW. 
THe Annual Whitsuntide Show of the Royal Botanical and Horticultural 
Society of Manchester, which was held at The Gardens, Old Trafford, on 
May 11th, and five following days, was a highly successful one. The 
Orchids occupied the greater part of the large Exhibition-house, and made 
a most brilliant display; and as this building is heated up to greenhouse 
temperature there is no risk to the health of the plants if the weather is cold, 
as sometimes occurs at this season. 
The first prize for the best Miscellaneous Collection of Orchids was. 
secured by W. J. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), 
for an excellent and tastefully arranged group, in which were many fine 
Odontoglossums, as O. x Ruckerianum, a large, richly coloured, and well- 
flowered plant, the rare O. Schillerianum, O. hystrix, a wonderfully fine 
O. x Coradinei, the charming O. nevium, O. triumphans, O. x Wilcke- 
anum, some good forms of O. crispum,a fine O. x elegans and its two 
parents Hallii and cirrhosum, and others. The group also contained some 
good Cattleya Mendelii and Mossiz, C. Skinneri alba, C. intermedia alba, 
and C. Aclandie ; a fine specimen of Dendrobium Bensoniz, many good 
D. Phalenopsis, D. Parishii, some forms of Masdevallia Harryana, and 
other Orchids. F, Hardy, Esq., Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Safford), came 
second with a large group, artistically arranged in clumps and on pedestals, 
with small vistas between, at the end of the building. It included many 
good forms of Odontoglossum crispum, a very fine O. nebulosum with a 
seven-flowered raceme, O. hystrix, O. citrosmum, O. Hallii, O. x Andersoni- 
anum, a good Dendrobium Dearei, D. Devonianum, D. nobile, several 
good Chysis bractescens, Cattleya citrina, Miltonia Roezlii, Cymbidium 
Lowianum, and others. E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow (gr.. 
Mr. Stafford), secured the third prize with a group which contained many 
good things, including Lelia grandis, some excellent Cattleya Schroedere, 
some splendidly grown and flowered plants of Dendrobium Dearii, Oncidium 
sphacelatum and ampliatum, the graceful Brassia verrucosa, Ccelogyne 
Dayana, Cypripediums hirsutissimum, bellatulum, and niveum, the latter 
