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SlEBRECHT & WaDLEY'S CATALOGUE OF 
IV. 
Orchids for Interhedi/ite Temper/iture. 
Varieties best suited for Beginners in Orchid Culture. 
A CAREFULLY selected list of Orchids which are not expensive, and which can be eiisily manaKcd under or- 
dinary circumstances, and in ordinary greenhouse temperature of from 48 to 55 dceroes at ni-ht durintr 
■ * ""'^ increase as spring weather approaches. There are many beautiful varietie"s included 
in this collection. They need no special or separate house, but can be grown in an ordinary greenhouse, rose or plant 
houses with much the same regular treatment as other plants, the only difference being that thev should be kept 
from the direct hot rays of the sun. Orchids, like other plants like moisture, air and general attention. If treated 
as directed, they will richly repay the cultivator. 
It must not be supposed that because these Orchids are recommended as being cheap and easily grown they ai o 
mferior; on the contrary, many of the richest and finest varieties are here included. All the jilants offered aio 
well established. 
PLEASE NOTICE. All varieties in the following general list marked thus (») can be supplied in large (luanti 
ties, and a discount of ten per cent, from the regular catalogue prices will be allowed on all orders of a dozen or more 
plants of any one variety thus indicated. 
When prices are omitted, they may be had, with further particulars, upon application. 
SFECI/!IL OFFER. 
100 named well established Orchids of this list, in 50 distinct varieties, our selection $100 00 
50 plants in 50 varieties, our selection [ t!0 00 
25 plants in 25 varieties, our selection S5 00 
13 plants in 12 varieties, our selection 18 00 
ACHTETA. Epiphytal plants of stout habit, bearing 
showy flowers in drooping racemes. They are related 
to the Peristeria or Holy Ghost Orchid. They should 
he grown in a basket; their fragrant flowers are borne 
on pendulous spikes. 
A. Barkeri $1 00 to $3 00 
A. Humboldtii 1 00 to 2 00 
A. fulva 1 25 to 2 25 
A. straminea . . . 1 25 to 2 60 
ACBOF£B>A. The Acroperas are epiphytal plants 
bearing long loose racemes of large and curiously 
shaped flowers. These should be grown in baskets, 
with a fibrous peat and sphagnum moss. 
•A. armeniaca $0 75 to $1 50 
*A. Loddigesii 50 to 1 00 
A. luteola 75 to 1 50 
ADA aurantiaca. A small genus of epiphytal plants, 
which should be grown in |)ots in compost of peat and 
moss. A few plants of it produce a charming elTect, 
as the flowers are of an unusually rich orange vermil- 
ion color. *1.,50 to *2.!jO. 
ANGULOA. Very showy plants, growing about eight- 
een inches high. The flowers are largo and beautiful, 
with thick, fleshy, connivent sepals, whicli often give 
them a sub-globular outline. They should be grown 
in pots, with fibrous peat and moss. 
ANGULOA Clowesii *I 00 to $3 50 
A. eburnea. (Hare) 5 00 to 7M 
A. Ruckerii 5 00 to 7 50 
A. virginalis 8 00 to 10 00 
BBASSAVOLA. Epiphytal plants with somewhat 
thickened stems; one-leaved, with terminal showy 
flowers, of which the s-;;pals are long and spreading. 
Tliey should be grown on a block. 
B. acauUs ?1 50 to 50 
*B. glanca I 50 to 2 50 
*B. Digbyana 1 50 to 3 .50 
BBASSIA. This genus is closely allied to Oncidium, 
ditt'ering in the narrow long sepals and petals. The 
flowers are in loose and simple rac(mi<!S. They are 
evergreen plants of eas.y culture, and are best grown 
in pots, with fibrous i)Cat and moss; should iievei' bo 
allowed to get dry. 
B. maculata $1 50 to 00 
B. major 3 50 to 5 00 
*B. verrucosa (5 to 1 50 
B. grandiflora 1 00 to I 50 
BBOUOHTONIA sanguinea. A small epiphytal plant 
of the scries of IjaMieu', having four poUi^n masses, as 
in that genus. This i)lant succeeds best in a block 
witli a little moss. $l..50to$y. 
