Harriet Stewart Miner's botanical vintage illustration from Orchids - The Royal Family of Plants from 1885 - Cattleya trinae
1885 Text CATTLEYA TRIANAE Th:s variety, -represented in Plate No. V.,-a native of New Granada, was named in compliment to Signor Triana, a large collector of orchids in that province. It blossoms in winter. It need hardly be said that this variety is considered on all hands, one of the richest and most splendid of floral beauties. It is not, indeed, superior to the C. Mossice, but by many is preferred, because it blooms in winter. In the finely appointed orchid-house of Mr. Corning, of Albany, there are, at the holiday seasons, hundreds of these Cattleya Trianae in full blossom. In presence of this floral magnificence, beholders might imagine that they had gained a glimpse of the true Eden, of "many mansions," —
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