Specie Orchid Plants — Blooming Size 
CATTLEYA— 
About 40 speciec 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 
one-half to three inches across, rose-purple. 
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 $5.00 
The Christmas Orchid. Bears two to four flowers 
four or five inches across; purple-amethyst. Blooms 
in November and December. 
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. 
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 Bicronutum $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 tsreaked with red-purple. 
Small flowers, fragrant. Blooms in Summer. 
EIDENDRUM Nemorale $5.00 - $6.60 
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 Paget $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 hang as 
flowers scapes come out of the bottom of the basket. 
Summer and Fall blooming. 
BEGINNERS COLLECTION 
5 Plants 
3 Specie Plants 
1 Lavender Hybrid 
1 White or WCL Hybrid (Our Choice) 
$40.00 
ROUND THE CALENDAR SPECIE COLLECTION 
Five Orchid Plants 
1 Trianae, 1 Speciossissima, 1 Mossiae, 
1 Labiata, and 1 Percivaliana 
$30.00 
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