NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
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Specialties 
The following is only a brief mention of all the leading specialties of our firm. 
It would take a large book to catalogue and describe all the stock of all the different 
sizes which we carry, thus bewildering rather than helping the intending purchaser. 
Therefore, we have simply described briefly each department with special low offers 
for strictly first-class stock, the selection being left to us, and if our patrons would tell 
us the purpose for which these plants are intended, also their preference as regards color 
and other particulars, we shall make such selection as we are sure will please you in every 
instance. 
We would be pleased to send a full list of any stock that might be desired. 
Regarding the quality of our stock, it will suffice to read the following pages and see 
the extraordinary number of prizes that we have been awarded in open competition at the 
three greatest International Flower Shows, competing against the world, and in each case, 
either home or abroad, carried the largest number of prizes, besides hundreds of other 
prizes received at local or less important exhibitions. 
Greenhouse Flowering Plants 
This useful class comprises both dwarf and climbing kinds. Only such are grown as 
have been found to be the best and most popular varieties. We will be pleased to select 
best kinds for purposes desired. 
Price: 50c, each; $5.00 per dozen. 
As you will see from the reports of the two International Exhibitions in America, and 
also the one in London, we have secured all the leading prizes for Greenhouse Foliage 
Plants. 
Orchids 
These are undoubtedly the coming flowers, and every greenhouse or conservatory 
should have at least a few of these floral gems. They are of easy culture, and will grow 
in any ordinary greenhouse or conservatory, together with other common plants, such as 
Geraniums, Fuchsias, etc. Most of the varieties can be grown in baskets or on blocks, 
and suspended from the roof, thus not utilizing any bench room. Orchids, when in bloom 
and kept in cool places, will last from four to ten weeks in perfection, so that anyone 
having a small collection of Orchids will have some plants in bloom all the year round. 
Amateurs intending starting to grow Orchids should write for list of such varieties as are 
best suitable for beginners. The following are a few cultural points: Orchids require a 
season of growth and a season of rest, corresponding with the wet and dry seasons of 
their native country. When they are making new growths, they should receive a liberal 
supply of wader until the maximum is reached, when the new bulb is nearly full size; then 
it should receive just enough water to keep the bulbs from shriveling; as soon as it shows 
the sign of bloom, water it again until it has done flowering. 
We will be pleased to supply strong flowering size bulbs of our own selection as 
follows: 
Price 
6 Orchids, in 6 varieties . $5.00 
12 Orchids, in 12 varieties . 10.00 
6 Cypripedium, in 6 varieties . 4.50 
12 Cypripedium, in 12 varieties . 9.00 
Please remember all our Orchids are cool-grown. We have not nor ever had the 
dreaded Cattleya Fly or any other injurious insect. 
Special offer of Albino forms and rare varieties of Cattleyas and other Orchids; also 
yellow forms of Cypripediums on application. 
Special offer of Hybrid Cattleyas and Laelio-Cattleyas unflowered, nice thrifty plants, 
that will flower this year. Strong plants, 5 to 10 bulbs, from the best crosses, which will 
produce some extraordinary fine forms. 
