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ALTISSIMUM = (West Indies) Spring 
Bulbs 3" to 5", rather flat with leaves up to 18" long. 
Flower spikes 3! to 5! with short, close set branches, 
Many flowers closely set, about ls", sepals and petals 
pale yellow barred with brown with a yellow Lipessessh5e200 to 10,00 
AMPLIATUM VAR. MAJUS - (Central America) Spring 
This is one of the showiest and most beautiful of all 
the Oncidiums and we have featured it for a number of 
years in our Spring Flower Show groupse ‘The plant 
liself is very attractive, with broad, dark green bulbs 
sometimes mottled with purple-reds; leaves 8! to 15" 
long = broad and leathery, somewhat resembling Phalae-= 
nopsis leaves. The spikes arch upright, 2? to 5! in 
length, and branche The habit of the entire Spike is 
more or less in the form of a triangle and the inflores~ 
cence of cach individual branch is again triangular, so 
that each branch makes a perfect corsagee any flowered = 
a good spike will have up to several hundred flowers, each 
about Lest across and round in appearance. Clear yellows 
with small sepals and petals. The back of the flowers 
are lighter in color, almost white with a large, spreading 
bright yellow So Wewedeea wets eeaaeé COC 0 ee coe Oe 600 0cee 1 50 TO 25400 
BOISSIENSE (Forbesii x Varicosum) A Fall and Winter hybrid 
A very lovely large, and for the most part deep yellow 
flower of richer colorings than Varicosum but similar 
in habit of flower spike and growthe Good growing 
PODS a wig eee aeoe coe eee eer eee nce r concer cesonescccs oii LOO to 15.200 
ARTEAGINENSE = (Tropical America) Summer and Fall 
Heavy leaves 8" to 18" from a bulbless rhigome, with 
flower spikes )! to 8" in length; many branches with 
flowers about 1" across and yellowish-cream in color, 
marked and spotted with LTOSCeeece eevcccccccecsesce cei eOQ0 to 10,00 
CAVENDISHTIANUM = (Tropical America) Winter and Spring 
Habit of growth as in Carthaginense but with larger, 
clear dark green leaves; flower spikes 2! to 1 
branching; individual flowers fragrant, 1" to 2 
across; undulated sepals and petals, a good, clear 
yellow with slight spottings of red and a bright 
yellow lipe A good winter cut LLOWCL ewceccvvcesceees5 000 to $15.00 
FLEXUOSUM - (Brazil) Various 
2" to 3" oval bulbs on ascending rhizomes with }"" to gn 
leaves and flower spikes 2! to }! high, branching, many 
flowerode Flowers usually $" to 1" in diancter of good, 
clear yellows with bright yellow lip and a bit of red 
markingse This Oncidium has a habit of flowering almost 
continuously as the plants attain a good Size, and if 
the flower spikes are not cut all the way to the base 
of the DUDecnesenenesncenenesncessesescoenscccsencegce00 to 10.00 
HARRISONTANUM = (Brazil) Summer and Fall 
A beautiful, small, dwarf-growing species, very seldom 
more than 6" high, Branched flower spikes 10" to 1g" 
with very closely set, rather small, beautifully 
colored flowerse Sepals and petals clear vellow 
marked with red with a good spreading lip, also spotted 
with rede RALCecewecsccscccccsccvsscescsvessvsee see lO 00 to 15.00 
