The Cattleya is the original cultivated orchid... an exquisite 
flower of noble proportions, with spectacular colors ranging 
from snowy whites to dazzling yellows, from rich apricots to 
intriguing bronze shades, from royal lavenders to striking 
scarlets. Endless color variations are available, all enchant- 
ing and dramatic. 
We have forty-six greenhouses devoted to this genera for 
the production of seedlings and plants for sale as well as 
cut-flower production. 
Some of the parent plants we use have been awarded a 
First Class Certificate or an Award of Merit by the Royal 
Horticultural Society. But though we have a large stock of 
awarded plants, and are constantly adding to them, they 
alone do not guarantee consistently good results, for it is a 
well established fact among breeders of long standing that 
such awarded plants do not always produce the best hybrids. 
Consequently, over the years we developed and proved a 
number of stud plants to a point where we know that they 
will produce the results we are after. By using our “private 
stud” plants, developed by generations of our own breeding, 
with the awarded plants, we have a combination that assures 
us the quality you and we want. 
We now follow the procedure of making and offering 
only those crosses that we would wish to have in our own 
greenhouses for high quality cut-flower production and show 
purposes. [hus we are really offering to share a part of the 
plants we are growing for our own use. We believe these 
crosses represent the best obtainable today, and they will 
continue to meet the highest standards many years from now. 
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May we assure you that we have no discard plants to offer as we 
have followed the practice for the last five years of destroying all 
plants that do not produce quality flowers. We have no special lots 
of plants for sale and each and every order must come from our 
regular cut-flower and exhibition stock. 
In addition to the general listing of crosses, we have many divi- 
sions of plants, selected when in bloom, of fine plants and plants 
reserved for stud purposes. These are available in limited quantities, 
but the list is too long to catalog. Kindly ask for any special needs 
and we will be glad to quote prices. 
Community pot sizes are available upon request, though not 
catalogued. 
GaTETHYS 
(C. Annie J. Lines var. Majestic x C. Ardentissima var. Colossus) 
