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Definition of Cattleyas
1. cattleya [n] - See also: cattleya
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cattleyas
Literary usage of Cattleyas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"During the last few years the collecting and importing of cattleyas into the US
hax assumed large proportions, owing to a continually and steadily increased ..."
2. The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book by H. A. Burberry (1900)
"Presuming that cattleyas, of such species as labiata, Trianae, Mossiae, and
Mendeli in their varieties, also various others, are being purchased, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
">ur climate there is no period when the cattleyas I be kept dry at the roots.
... cattleyas should be attended to in this respect in the winter months, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1873)
"... Ferns, Crotons, Caladiums, and other fine-foliaged plants, and the second
division is an Orchid house, in which cattleyas predominate. ..."
5. Paxton's Flower Garden by Sir Joseph Paxton, John Lindley, Thomas Baines (1882)
"Labiata, one of the finest of cattleyas, is a very free bloomer, and so is Skinneri.
Loddigesii, Intermedia, Guttata, and Candida, are also all good sorts ..."
6. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"Among the cattleyas, Cattleya ... cattleyas were the chief features. There were
some beautiful forms of Cattleya ..."
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