The Steeple-Asherton Mercury, Wednesday 14 March 1923, p. 3, col. 2
A clipping kept by Miss Vellance in the secretarial scrap-book at Asher Hall.
THE ORCHIDACEOUS PRIZE OF ASHER HALL
It is the pleasant duty of this Paper to record the first flowering, in the glasshouse at Asher Hall, of a Cymbidium of singular and entirely original character, raised over a course of eleven years by her Ladyship Lady Constance Asher and lately registered with the Royal Horticultural Society as Cymbidium asheri.
The plant is of the small-flowered class. The labellum is of a clear primrose ground, lightly veined with carmine; the sepals greenish-cream; the column white. Nine inflorescences are presently borne. Mr Crisp, the head gardener at the Hall these one-and-thirty years, informs the Paper that the cross was first attempted in the spring of 1912 from a Burmese type whose name is not for these columns, and that her Ladyship has waited the patience of more than a decade for its flowering.
It is understood that her Ladyship has firmly declined offers from several quarters. We are informed that one such, in writing, came to two hundred guineas. The plant is not to be parted with on any terms during her Ladyship's lifetime.
The Cymbidium asheri may be viewed by appointment during the present month.