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an Award of Merit on May 11, and had since then greatly 

 improved. (Fig. 31.) 



ToL&lio-Cattleya x '|Lady Wigan' (L.purpurataRusselliana x 

 C. Mossiae aurea) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Charles worth 

 & Co., Heaton, Bradford. A fine flower with blush-white sepals 

 and petals, and finely displayed lip, of a clear pinkish white 



Fig. 31. — Cypripedium x Chapmanii magnificum. (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



with some purple lines in the centre, and clear yellow in the 

 tube. 



To Laalia purpurata Ashworthiana (votes, unanimous), from 

 Elijah Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, Cheshire 

 (gr. Mr. Holbrook). The peculiarity of this variety is that the 

 petals partake of the colouring of the lip, and are much broader 

 than usual. It is a remote instance of 1 trilabellia.' 



