Specie Orchid Plants — Blooming Size 
CATTLEYA— 
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 lip is usually darker than the 
sepals and petals. 
C. Bowringeana $7.50 
Bears five to twelve flowers in fall, each two and 
and one-half to three inches across, rose-purple. 
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. Blooms 
in November and December. 
C. Speciosissima (Luedemanniana) $5.00 - $7.59 
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. 
CYPRIPEDIUMS— 
The lady slipper type orchid, having a pouch. The 
blooms have a waxy texture and long lasting qualities. 
The plants are compact and make a very satisfactory 
house plant. Cypripediums are easily grown. They 
should be kept moist all of the time provided the tem- 
perature is 60 degrees and above. They are usually 
grown in osmunda fibre, or a mixture of osmunda and 
live sphagnum moss. 
CYP. St. Albans $12.50 
Green and purplish brown. Season Variable. 
CYP. Maudiae $12.50 
Green and White. Season Variable. 
OTHER FINE CYPRIPEDIUM HYBRIDS AT $17.50 
DENDROBIUM Nobile $3.00 - $4.00 - $5.06 
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 Fragrans $3.50 - $5.00 
Flowers in short 3 to 7 flowered spikes. Sepals and 
petals 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. 
STANHOPEA Graveolens $6.00 - $7.50 
Scapes 1 to 5 flowered; flowers large; sepals and 
petals straw yellow, lip deep yellow. Must hiang as 
flowers scapes come out of the bottom of the basket. 
Summer and Fall blooming. 
Cypripedium Martin — Cypripedium Wendelilly 
Cypripedium Melody (In Front) 
