Word: firmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long ago a Mr. F. E. Dixon of Elkins Park, Pa., an orchid grower with the instincts of a stockbroker, cornered the market by buying every available Cattleya Gigas Alba var Firmen Lambeau in Britain. From a stray orchid of the original Cattleya Gigas Alba, Mr. Lager acquired the piece of his own plant that flowered so lushly last week. There are seven bulbs on this. Soon he expects to have two plants in two pots. Only once a year does...
...greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever been found before or since. The most valuable orchid in the world, it was sold by Lager & Hurrell for $10,000 to a European commercial establishment which in turn sold it to Baron Firmen Lambeau of Belgium. Lager & Hurrell promptly made it a house rule never to sell an orchid plant until the partners had a chance to see what the flowers were going to be like...
John Lager found the world's rarest orchid in 1908. Of a batch of Cattleya Gigas he had shipped from South America, one astonishingly bloomed Albino. He sold it, the only one ever found, to Baron Firmen Lambeau of Belgium for $10,000. Lambeau managed to propagate it but it is still the world's rarest known orchid...
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