﻿October, 1904.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes Charlesworthii. a very handsome form, 

 bearing a spike of eight fine white flowers, with chrome-yellow markings, 

 these consisting of groups of eight to ten blotches on the sepals, and one 

 to three on the petals and lip, with a few short lines on each side of 

 the latter. 



Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, received a Silver Flora 

 Medal for a fine group, including some good varieties of Larlio-cattleya X 

 Canhamiana, L.-c. X eximia, L.-c. X bletchleyensis, Cattleya X Maroni, 

 C. X Boadicea (Hardyana X Gaskelliana), a richly-coloured hybrid, a 

 plant of Pescatorea Klabochorum bearing four handsome flowers, forms of 

 Cypripedium insigne, C. X Prince Humbert (niveum X Mastersianum), 

 having waxy white flowers dotted with purple lines, C. X Annie Measures, 



&c. An Award of Merit was given to Lslio-cattleya X eximia Sander's 

 var. (C. Warned X L. purpurata), a large and very richly coloured form. 



Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, also received a Silver Flora 

 Medal for a fine group of hybrids, conspicuous in which were eighteen 

 plants of Ladio-cattleya X bletchleyensis, varying considerably in colour 

 several good forms of L.-c. X Nysa, L.-c. X Wellsiana, L.-c X callisto- 

 glossa ignescens, L.-c. X Haroldiana, L.-c. X Robin Measures, L.-c. 

 X Hermione, L.-c. X Digbyano-Warscewiczii, Cattleya X Pittiana, C. X 

 Casca (Gaskelliana X velutina), &c. 



Messrs. James Cypher and Sons, Cheltenham, sent a small group ot 

 good things, including three fine clumps of Rodriguezia venusta, each 

 bearing about thirty long racemes of fragrant white flowers (a Cultural Com- 

 mendation being awarded), the charming Cypripedium X Maudiae, and C. 

 X Mrs. Herbert Druce (niveum X bellatulum), also in fine condition. 



Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., Bush Hill Park, also sent a brilliant little 

 group, containing a fine example of Cattleya bicolor, bearing six spikes 

 and an aggregate of 34 flowers, some good C. Grossii and C. Gaskelliana, 

 C. Lueddemamaiana striata, some well-flowered Dendrobium formosum 

 and D. Phalsenopsis, Zygopetalum maxillare, Oncidium Forbesii, O. micro- 

 chilum, &c. 



MAN-CHESTER AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ORCHID. 



A meeting of this Society was held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Old 

 Trafford, on September 6th, in connection with the Dahlia Show, and 

 brought together a few choice Orchids, the time of year not being favour- 

 able to a large display. 



G. W. Law-Schofield, Esq., Rawtenstall (gr. Mr. Shill), staged a group 

 of excellent plants, including a number of showy Lselio-cattleyas and other 

 hybrids, a Silver Medal being awarded. 



