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‘bearing a fine head of ten flowers, and C. X Rutilant (x Maroni x Fabia 
Vigeriana), a very handsome hybrid, which received a First-class Certificate, 
having a large reddish crimson flower of excellent shape and a rather darker 
glowing crimson lip. 
Messrs. James Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a very pretty group, including many good Cypripediums, note- 
worthy among them being the fine C. X Transvaal superbum, two good C. 
X Maudie, C. X Milo, Westonbirt var.,C. xX triumphans, x Olivia, x 
Niobe, Fairrieanum, &c. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, received a Silver Banksian Medal 
for a good group, including several Cypripedium Fairrieanum with about 
two dozen flowers, C. x Hitchinsize, and several others, a good example of 
Catasetum Russellianum, Ancistrochilus Thomsonianus, Miltonia spectabilis’ 
Moreliana, Lzelio-cattleya Hildegard, Nysa, Lycidas, and La France (L. 
tenebrosa X C. bicolor), and other interesting things. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Enfield, sent a pretty little group, including 
Cattleya X Iris, C. x Atalanta, Oncidium Lanceanum, Vanda Kimballiana, 
Lezlio-cattleya bletchleyensis, Cypripedium Godefroye leucochilum, C. X 
triumphans, and others. 
Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, sent a small group, including 
Odontoglossum crispum and Harryanum, with Cattleya x Iris, Epiphronitis 
Veitchii, Oncidium bicallosum, Cypripedium x Maudiz, and others. 
Mr. G. W. Miller, Wisbech, sent a plant of Lzlio-cattleya Cassandra. 
Messrs. Moore, Ltd., Rawdon, Leeds, sent two fine forms of Cattleya X 
Iris, Cypripedium Charlesworthii magnificum, and an inflorescence of 
Neobenthamia gracilis. 
Messrs. Stanley & Co., Southgate, sent Cattleya x F. W. Wigan, 
Cypripedium bellatulum; and C. x A. de Lairesse. 
MANCHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on 
September 3rd, when there were many evidences of the season’s revival, 
several good groups of plants being exhibited. The following members of 
the Committee were present :—Messrs. E. Ashworth (Chairman), k. 
Ashworth, Thorp, Ward, Warburton, Shill, Upjohn, Ball, Keeling, Holmes, 
Cypher, Ashton, Parker, and Weathers (Secretary). 
Richard Ashworth, Esq., J.P., Newchurch (gr. Mr. Fletcher), staged a 
bright and varied group, which gained the Society’s Silver Medal. The 
chief items were Cypripedium x Aphrodite, C. x gigas Corndean Hall var., 
several good Odontoglossum crispum, Cattleya x Hardyana, and a distinct 
hybrid, Lelia prestans x L. tenebrosa, with a very dark labellum, whilst 
centrally stood a well flowered specimen of Miltonia candida grandiflora. 
