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W. A. MANDA, INC., SOUTH ORANGE, N. J. 
The above illustration shows the transportation of orchids from their native homes. 
After risking their lives in collecting same, the collectors have to cut down trees, saw 
out boards by hand, make boxes into which the plants are packed; and then, trans¬ 
ported on the backs of men or animals sometimes hundreds of miles before reaching the 
coast where they are shipped to New York, reaching South Orange, from where they are 
reshipped all over the country either in their dormant condition or after they have been 
established. 
