THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[October, 1913. 



Habenaria Susannae, tHe curious Bulbophyllum 

 grandiflorum, Miltonia Phalaenopsis, Oncidium 

 incurvum album, and excellent Cypripediums. 



R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, 

 Streatham Hill, was awarded a Silver 

 Banksian Medal for a very attractive exhibit 

 of Cattleya Iris and Adula, both having dark 

 purple labellums, which made a pleasing 

 contrast to the buff-yellow sepals and petals. 

 Cattleya Roupelliana (superba x Hardyana) 

 was represented by an excellent dark form. 



W. R. Lee, Esq., Plumpton Hall, Heywood, 

 exhibited Cypripedium Niobe Leeana, a large 

 flower with the dorsal sepal flushed with 

 rose-purple. 



W. Cobb, Esq., Normanhurst, Rusper, 

 staged Cypripedium villoso-Rothschildianum, 

 a large plant with four flowers, quite 

 intermediate between both parents. 



George Bird, Esq., Manor House, West 

 Wickham, Kent, exhibited Cattleya Freya 

 var. Miss Willis (Mantinii X aurea), with bright 

 rich purple flowers, the lip broad and veined 

 with gold. 



Mrs. Temple, Leyswood, Groombridge, 

 showed Cypripedium Ashburtonias, a specimen 

 plant with 43 flowers. 



Messrs. Mansell and Hatcher, Rawdon, 

 showed Odontioda Joan, Rawdon variety, a 

 reddish-scarlet flower with rose tint on the 

 edge of segments, the lip yellow-brown. 



E. H. Davidson, Esq., Twyford, exhibited 

 the elegant Odontoglossum Woodroffeae, O. 

 Ceres, O. Twyford Gem, the pretty Sophro- 

 Cattleya Doris and S.-C. Blackii, the latter a 

 particularly large and beautiful flower, quite 

 the best form so far seen. 



Awards of Merit. 



Laelio-Cattleya Amada (L.-C. luminosa x 

 C. fulvescens), from Lieut.-Col. Sir George 

 Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt.— A broad 

 flower with buff-coloured sepals and petals, 

 the large labellum crimped at the margin, and 

 with bright purple mottling 



Cattleya Cybele, Davidson's variety 

 (Gaskelliana x Lueddemanniana), from E. H. 

 Davidson, Esq., Twyford,-^A large flower of 



light rose tint, the lip having a centre blotch 

 of violet-purple. 



Cultural Commendation 



To Messrs. Armstrong and Brown, Tun- 

 bridge Wells, for an elegant specimen of 

 the Peruvian Oncidium corynephorum with a 

 trailing spike of 35 flowers. 



MANCHESTER ORCHID SOCIETY. 



August 2 I St, 191 3. 



Members of the Committee present : Rev. J. 

 Crombleholme (in the chair), Messrs. J. 

 Bamber, E. H. Davidson, A. G. Ellwood. 

 A. Hanmer, A. J. Keeling, D. McLeod, 

 W. Shackleton, H. Thorp, Z. A. Ward, G. 

 Weatherby, A. Warburton, and H. Arthur 

 (secretary). 



A Silver-gilt Aledal was awarded to 

 R. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch, for a good 

 group of Odontoglossums, Cattleyas and 

 Cypripediums. 



A Silver Medal was granted to A. War- 

 burton, Esq., Haslingden, for a fine group of 

 Cypripediums ; and to the Rev. J. Cromble- 

 holme, Clayton-le-Moors, for choice Cypri- 

 pediums. 



Mr. D. McLeod, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, 

 staged Odontoglossum crispum " Reine 

 Blanche," and Mr. J. Birchenhall, Alderley 

 Edge, exhibited Cypripedium Mars. 



First-class Certificates. 



Odontoglossum Woodroffeae (Rossii rubes- 

 cens X Queen Alexandra), the best of all 

 the Rossii hybrids ; and Cattleya Harrisonae 

 alba, a fine form of the albino type, from 

 E. H. Davidson, Esq. 



Odontoglossum crispum virginale " Ash- 

 lands var.," well-formed flowers of good 

 substance, from R. Ashworth, Esq. 



Award of Merit. 



Cypripedium Muriel Hollington, a pleasing 

 variety with large flowers, from the Rev. J. 

 Crombleholme. 



