73 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Marcu, 1908, 
Warburton, Cowan, Upjohn, Sander, Ball, Ashton, Keeling, Shill, Cypher, 
Ward, Parker, R. Ashworth and. P. Smith. The winter-flowering 
Cypripedes showed a further falling off, Odontoglossums, Dendrobes, 
Cattleyas, &c., being well to the fore. ; 
R. Farrer, Esq., Ingleboro’, Yorks (gr Mr. Sheppard), gained a First- 
class Certificate for Odontoglossum crispum ardentissimum, a remarkable 
flower of fine shape and substance, with a large blotch on each segment, also 
a hybrid between O. x percultum Charlesworthii and O. crispum Calypso. 
H. J. Bromilow, Esq., Rann Lea, Liverpool (gr. Mr. Morgan), staged a 
group of Cypripediums of high quality. C. Fairrieanum var. Othello 
was given an Award of Merit. The flower was rather small, but very 
distinct, the upper three-fourths of the dorsal sepal being of an intensely 
dark maroon, almost black, and the petals broadly edged with the same dark 
colour. The group contained many well-flowered plants, and gained the 
Society’s Silver Medal. 
S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range (gr. Mr. Shill), showed Cypripedium 
X aureum? var. laekenense, a very fine flower and well-balanced, 
with the upper portion of the dorsal sepal broadly margined with white. It 
received a First-class Certificate, together with C. x Mr. J. E. Shill 
(Acteeus X Leeanum), having the dorsal sepal white, faintly spotted with 
small red spots, and the general colour of the flower straw yellow. Den 
drobium X Thwaitesiz gained an Award of Merit, and I noted a well- 
flowered plant of D. nobile album. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, staged a small group of 
good quality. An Award of Merit was given to Sophrolzlia Felicia (L- 
Dayana X S.-l. heatonensis),’a flower of rich maroon purple, with the lip 
still deeper in colour. Cymbidium x Woodhamsianum (eburneo-Lowianum 
x Lowianum) is a hybrid of much merit, very like the first-named parent, 
but much larger in all its parts, and the blotching on the lip finer. Other 
good things were Brassocattleya Digbyano-Mendelii, an Odontoglossum X 
amabile of good colour, Lycaste Skinneri alba, Cypripedium x Pomona, 
&c. (Silver Medal). 
A. Warburton, Esq., Vine House, Haslingden (gr. Mr. Dalgleish), staged 
a very effective group of Cypripediums, relieved with Odontoglossums. 
Awards of Merit were given to C. x Empress of Russia, and the greenish- 
yellow O. sceptrum Masereelianum. I noted two well-flowered plants of 
C. Rothschildianum. The group was divided, and gained two Silver Medals. 
Ziba A. Ward, Esq., Cringlewood, Northenden (gr. Mr. Weatherby), 
staged a fine mixed group, Odontoglossums predominating. O. X 
warnhamense (Hallii x Pescatorei Charlesworthii), O. Pescatorei var. 
Louise, O. X Harryano-triumphans, Ward’s var., and O. xX Ossulstoni, 
Ward’s var., each gained an Award of: Merit. ‘Other good things were 
