CATTLEYA HYBRIDS FROM COMMUNITY POTS UP 
The stock listed includes many of the varieties on which our reputation has been built and a 
goodly number of new crosses. As is our usual custom, the prices are for single lead plants although 
often the plants we send out have more than one lead. Descriptions are of necessity brief, but we 
believe adequate although of course we will be glad to give additional information with regard to 
any of the items. 
As is now well known, we grow our plants in smaller pots than is customary. Our clients can 
therefore feel sure that any plants they buy will be fully up to pot size; in fact, many of them are 
ready to pot on into at least one size larger, often two to three sizes larger. This is a point that 
should not be overlooked. 
We do not lay particular stress on the fact that some of the parent plants we use have been 
awarded a First Class Certificate or an Award of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. This 
is not because we depreciate the value of these awards but it is a well established fact among 
breeders of long standing that such awarded plants do not always produce the best hybrids. In 
the course of over twenty-five years we have de veloped and proven a number of stud plants to a 
point where we know that they will produce the results we are after. We do have a large stock 
of awarded plants and are constantly adding to them but they in themselves do not guarantee 
consistently good results. However, when used with what we may term our “private stud” which 
has been developed by generations of our own breeding, the combination gives us the assurance 
of the quality that you and we ourselves want. 
ARMACOST & ROYSTON, INC. 
Spring, 1948 Los Angeles, 25, California 
US) 
