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Dear Customers: 
I have just received from Brazil a very fine 
shipment of Cattleya labiata. In this part of the world 
labiata blooms in the fall, but since this is the fall season 
in Brazil, the plants are petting ready to bloom now. They 
are all fine plants and very clean. I know they will please 
my customers. These plants should bloom again in the fall 
and the blooms shovld be larger because the present blooms 
are the first the plants have borne. 
For those of you who do not know C. labiata, it 
bears three to five flowers per spike, about six inches across. 
Sepals and petals are usually rose-lilac; labellum with the 
tube colored usually like the petals; the front lobe deeply 
emarginate, commonly © violet purple with deeper veins, the 
color rurning in streaks to the yellow throat which has an 
orange spot on either side. A truly fine Cattleya specie. 
They will be shipped in pots. For immediate 
shipment the price is $6.00 each, f.o.b. Monroe. 
When my new price list issued the price will be 
$7.50 each. 
Very cordially yours, 
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