The Cattleya Orchid ... 
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 enchanting 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 
ot Society. But though we have a large stock of awarded plants, and 
are constantly adding to them, they alone do not guarantee con- 
sistently 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 de- 
veloped 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. Thus 
we are really offering to share a part of the plants we are grow- 
ing 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. 
In addition to the general listing of crosses, we have many 
divisions 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. 
