WITHOUT THE LEAST RESERVE. 
TEMPLE SHOW SALE. 
150 
Ragnificent Orchids, 
SISTING OF 
SPLENDID ALBINO CATTLEYAS, “VERY CHOICE CYPRIPEDIUMS, GRAND 
ODONTOGLOSSUMS—RARE SPECIES, COCHLIODA HYBRIDS, etc. 
ALSO 
CATTLEYA REX. 
NCLUDED in the above 150 Lots will be 25 good growing, recently 
imported Plants of this extremely beautiful and very rare species. 
The flowers are large, and very remarkable for their amazing beauty and 
wonderful piece of colouring, large, broad, and elegantly fringed; the side lobes 
forming the tube which falls over the pure white column are creamy white on the 
edges, and yellow streaked with red beneath ; the upper part of the front lobe is 
of the richest crimson, veined in a beautiful manner with golden yellow; the front 
lobe of the labellum which is finely expanded, and edged with a pure white fringe, 
is crimson of various shades, forming a richly coloured inimitable picture. 
This exquisite and truly magnificent Cattleya has not been imported for 
many years, and has not been procurable at any price. It is at enormous cost 
that our collector has succeeded in sending home a few plants, after the most 
strenuous labour, risk, great hardships, and expense. 
COLLECTOR writes :—‘‘ The Rex is a beautiful Cattleya; I have had three 
plants in flower, one with seven flowers; some of them beat gigas in structure.’ 
This Cattleya must always remain rare in collections owing to the great 
difficulty experienced in getting it home, and the terrible losses on the journey. 
first Day of Cemple Show, May 25th, 1909, 
Ar 2.30 o’cLock Precise, 
By Order of Messrs. SANDER & SONS, St. Albans. 
Messrs. PROTHEROE & MORRIS will offer the above at their Sale Rooms, 
67 & 68 Cheapside, London, E.C. 
CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. 
