Word: lambeau
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...
...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...