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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: $10,000 Orchid | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: $10,000 Orchid | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: March Flowers | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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