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noted Cattleya gigas, C. Gaskelliana, Cypripedium x Ultor var. Youngii, 
C. Curtisii virescens, and several good Odontoglossums. 
Messrs. Keeling, Westgate Hill, Bradford, sent Cypripedium callosum 
Sander, Miltonia X Bleuana nobilior, and Cirrhopetalum Roxburghii 
(Second-class Botanical Certificate). Oncidium dasytyle and Cypripedium 
x Rethschildiano-augustum both gained Awards of Merit. 
Mr. W. Shackleton, Great Horton, Bradford, showed Odontoglossum 
X armainvillierense xanthotes and Cypripedium Godefroye. : 
Mr. J. Birchenall, Alderley Edge, showed two plants of Anguloa » 
Clowesii, and Sigmatostalix Eliz, curiously flowering a second time on a 
flower spike which was exhibited at the Temple Show. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, sent a few plants, which included a 
fine Cypripedium xX St. Albans, C. xX Felicity, Odontoglossum xX 
ardentissimum, &c. 
Mr. J. Robson, Altrincham, sent Cattleya gigas, &c. H. Tuorp. 
ORCHID COLLECTIONS ROUND MANCHESTER. 
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_ THE BripGE Hatt CoLiection.—The collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., 
Bridge Hall, Bury, is one of the oldest in the district, and an interesting 
communication from Mr. Wrigley on Cypripedium insigne appeared at page 
365 of our first volume. It must have been soon after that we had the 
pleasure of seeing the collection, and Mr. Wrigley, in a letter, remarks that 
the climate and surroundings have become considerably worse since then, 
and consequently he has to grow such things as will stand the smoke and 
fogs of the district, hence his main collection consists of Cypripediums and 
a few other things which flower in the summer months. 
Several houses are devoted to Orchids, and in looking through them in 
company with Mr. Rogers, who has had charge of the collection for a good 
many years, we found many interesting things in bloom. We first entered - 
a Cypripedium house and saw some thriving piants of C. Fairrieanum, and 
Mr. Rogers remarked that they were grown in peat and loam, about half of 
each, with the addition of a little tufa to keep the compost open. 
In a Cool Intermediate house we found the brilliant Epidendrum 
vitellinum in bloom, with Oncidium concolor and the rare Cypripedium 
virens. C. insigne Gladys was pointed out as a true albino, being clear 
yellow, without even the brown hairs seen on the petals of C.i. Sanderianum. 
It was not in bloom, but there was no trace of markings anywhere in the 
foliage. Vanda ccerulea was also growing very well here. A few plants of 
Vanda ccerulea were also placed ina house of Clivias, where the temperature 
is cooler in winter than in the Intermediate house, and the plants were. 
doing quite as well. Oncidium Wentworthianum was in bud here. 
