Cattleya Species in Blooming Size Plants 
About 40 species of the Cattleya genera are native to continental tropical America. They are best known 
of all the genera of orchids and are the flowers generally associated with the term “Orchids” in the popular mind. 
Variations in the period of bloom of the true specie make them available throughout the year. 
Colors range 
from dark purple to pale rosy-lavender, with a rare fuchsia, yellow, and white. The lp is usually darker than the 
sepals and petals. 
C. Bowringeana $7.50 
Bears five to twelve flowers, each two and one-half 
A three inches across, rose-purple. Blooms in the early 
all. 
C. Gigas $7.50 - $10.00 
Sometimes called Warscewiczii. This is an early 
summer flowering Cattleya and has the largest flowers 
of any of the species, bearing two or three flowers on a 
stem, seven to nine inches across. 
C. Labiata $7.50 
Produces three to five rose-lilac flowers on a stem 
in early fall. The flowers are about six inches across. 
C. Mbossiae $10.50 
Flowers near Easter, three to five-flowered, six or 
seven inches across. The sepals and petals are light 
rose with a purple-crimson throat. 
C. Percivaliana $3.00 - $5.00 
The Christmas Orchid. Bears two to four flowers 
four or five inches across; purple-amethyst. The lip is 
smaller than other C. varieties. Blooms in November 
and December. 
C. Schroederiana $5.00 - $7.50 
Very delicate pink and lavender with much yellow 
in the throat—blooms in early spring—two to three 
flowers five to six inches across. 
C. Speciosissima (Luedemanniana) $5.00 - $7.50 
Flowers large, six to eight inches across, petals 
broad. Sepals and petals from flesh color to medium 
purple. Lip slightly trumpet shaped, rich amethyst in 
the center. Spring blooming. 
C. Trianae $5.00 - $7.50 
Bears two to three flowers which are about six 
inches across; rose to white, the tube is rose and blooms 
through November, December and January. 
Variety For Your Orchid Collection 
BRASSIA Gireodiana $7.50 
Small spidery flowers of delicate lavender. Re- 
quires an abundance of water but easy to grow. 
DENDROBIUM Nobile $3.00 - $4.00 - $5.00 
Flowers is twos and threes, from nodes. Flowers 
are two to three inches across. Segments white, heavily 
tipped with rose-purple. The lip has a deep black- 
crimson blotch in the throat. Winter blooming. 
DIACRIUM Bicornutum $10.00 
Called the “Virgin Orchid.” The fragrant spark- 
ling white flowers have a dainty sprinkling of red on 
the lip. The delicate spray holds twelve to twenty buds 
which open in succession over a period of two months 
or so. Blooms in the spring. 
EPIDENDRUM Atropurpureum $5.00 - $7.50 
Mahogany and green sepals and petals spread wide, 
the tip of each curving forward gracefully. The spread- 
ing lip is white with crimson stripes. Six to ten of 
these long-lasting flowers are borne at the end of a 
long spray, rising from the top of the short oval psuedo- 
bulb. Flowers in late spring and early summer. 
EPIDENDRUM Fragrans $3.50 - $5.00 
Flowers in short 3 to 7 flowered spikes. Sepals and 
etals creamy white, lip white streaked with red-purple. 
Small flowers, fragrant. Blooms in Summer. 
EPIDENDRUM Nemorale $5.00 - $6.00 
Lovely lavender blooms of spidery shape, lip white 
streaked with purple. Many flowered on long stems. 
Blooms in Summer. 
LAELIA Anceps $3.00 - $4.00 - $5.00 
Produces two to four showy rose-purple flowers. 
three to four inches in diameter on a long stem in 
December and January. 
LAELIA Flava $5.00 - $7.50 
Bright pure yellow flowers 14%” to 2” across, in 
groups of 4-8 on a stem a foot high. Flowers in the 
early fall. Valuable in hydridizing. 
LAELIA Purpurata $8.00 
Flowers Large, five to eight inches across. Three 
to five flowers are produced in late spring. White suf- 
fused with light rose; lip crimson-purple, throat yel- 
low, striped with crimson. 
