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1949 RYERSON LIST NUMBER EIGHT - HYBRID ORCHID SEED Page 1. 




These two pages are designed to replace the former pages 1. a 
expansible folder. While I repeat the offering of three cros List 
2, this seed cannot be classed as “old" for I just complete fTeskings and 
proved each seed cross highly viable. The vigor of the Tri ag parent’ in each. 
case, usually keeps the seed highly viable for more than pyear. ‘As this! List’). 
goes into the mails, the seed is only six months old. ws NE ee pe 
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Crosses still available and highly viable on pages 3 and 4 are: 45, 604, 614. f 
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ie) lO-flask packetscsccecee $7.50 
2-flask ¥ 3.00 
15% discount on seed orders of $25. 20% discount on seed orders of $100. 
#600 C. trianae variety Edgar Knight X Le Aeneid 
The three plants of this famous variety of trianae were purchased by me after 
they had won their original owners, Alberts & Merkle Bros. first prize as finest 
three Cattleya Species exhibited. The darkest, most strikingly vivid trianaes 
I have met; lip and throat solid Royel purple, inside and out; the same color 
repeated in a broad, triangular feather in the petals. Excellent form and tex- 
ture. Le Aeneid, a cross of Le Britannia, alba and C. Fabianid, was an 8inch, 
crisp white bloom, with glowing purple lip and the same feathering at tips of 
petals. In making the cross, I hoped to preserve that entrancing feathering in 
a wide range of whites to dark lavenders. January and February blooming. 
#601 C. trianae variety Edgar Knight X Le Memoria H. Tracey 
Seed parent identical with that described above, this time received the pollen 
of 83-inch Memoria H. Tracey, one of nine blooms produced by the plant's three 
leads last season. The other eight blooms brought five dollars each in the 
wholesale florist market. Like trianae Ed Knight, they had solid Royal Purple 
lips, throats and feathering; lips broader and more ruffled than in the species. 
Should produce outstanding dark Le Winter hybrids. 
#612 C. trianae, Delicata Perfection X Le Aeneid 
One of the most outstanding varieties of trianae carried this seed pod. It was 
a large, delicately tinted bloom with wide petals and nice, rounded shape, with 
broad, frilled lip slightly darker than the petals. Very large gold zone back 
of lip and extending up into the throat. The Aeneid providing the pollen was 
from the bloom which won second prize in the International Orchid Show in the 
class of “Hybrids Flowering for the First Time." Pure white, heavy-textured 
sepals and petals; vivid, broad crimson lip. February. 

a) NEW SEED JUST HARVESTED 
#615 C. Mossiae X C. Angus 
The Mossiae pod parent was large, well formed; medium dark with darker splotch 
in lip. C. Angus, very large and dark, had an exceedingly dark, ruffled lip. 
#616 C. Mrs. Frederick Knollys (C. Mossiae X C. Hardyana var Ruby) 
A fine cross for Spring blooms. Hardyana veriety Ruby is always fine, producing 
an abundance of rose-magenta blooms with lovely open lips the color of a pigeon- 
blood ruby. Gold eyes in throat. 
#617 Le Sagana X C. Walter Jewell X Lc Pamela X C. Gatton Ruby 
Both hybrids produce large, dark, vivid blooms; very bold and striking. Ruffled 
crimson lips; grand heavy texture. Late Winter through Spring. 
