





Volume 1 
Orchid Seed 
We Grow Our Own — Every 
Packet Sold by us is grown and 
packed under our personal 
supervision. 

We are the FIRST company to 
make a business of growing and 
selling Orchid Seed to the in- 
dustry. 
We are the only suppliers of orchid seed 
who grow all the seed they sell. We never 
Buy seed for resale as we have found that 
freshness is an extremely important matter 
in orchid seed viability. Every parent plant 
used is carefully selected, recorded and 
individually numbered so that we may re- 
peat the most successful crosses in the fu- 
eure: 
We sell seed in advance because we 
believe in seed freshness. We have kept 
Cattleya and Phalaenopsis seed in good 
condition for years in a refrigerated des- 
sicator but we have also had other lots of 
the same genera but of different crosses go 
bad within a short time. 
Therefore we prefer to sell our seed be- 
fore the pod ripens and to send it to you 
as soon as it has been tested for viability. 
Another reason we do not buy seed is 
that we know that we cannot expect 
small growers, from whom we might buy, 
to use the highest type parents always. 
These are frequently forced to cross one 
good parent with a poor or mediocre 
one because another gouod parerit is not 
available. Our large collection of fine va- 
rieties allows us to use only the best type 
parents at all times. 
Stud Plants. We are very particular in 
our selection of plants for stud purposes. 
Our collection contains outstandingly fine 
plants of the following species and varieties: 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea, C. Labiata, C. La- 
biata alba, C. Bowringiana var Purple Princess, 
C. Percivalliana grandiflora, C. Aurantiaca, C. 
trianae alba, C. trianae var. Mary Fennell, C. 
trianae var Naranja, C. trianae var Jungle 
Queen, C. trianae var Illustris, C. trianae var. 
Christmas Cheer, C. Schroderae, C. Schroderae 
alba, V. Speciosissma, C. Skinneri, C. Skinneri 
alba, C. Mossiae, . Mossiae Wagneri, C. Mossiae 
var Viscount Kitchener, C. Mossiae Reineckiana, 
C. Gigas Sanderiana, C. Gigas F. M. Beyrodt, 
C. Mendelii, C. Superba, Laelia purpurata, L. 
purpurata alba, L. anceps Sanderiana, L. anceps 
alba, L. Boothiana, L. Crispa, L. rubescens alba, 
Phalaenopsis Schilleriana, P. Rimestadtiana, 
Vanda teres, V. Caerulea, V. tricolor var Pater- 
sonii, V. Parishii, V. Lamellata, V. Kimballiana, 
Renanthera Coccinea, R. Imschootiana, Den- 
drobium, Fimbriatum oculatum., D. Nobile, D. 
Aggregatum, D. Moschatum, D. Pierardii, D. 

MARCH 1, 1947 __ 
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TWO VARIETIES OF BLC DOROTHY FENNELL 
These flowers were fully eight inches wide with lips three inches wide. 
The one on the left had 
dark lavender sepals and petals and a dark vivid lip with large golden markings while the one on the 
right had white sepals and petals and a brilliant gold and rose lip. 

THE PRESENT OWNERS OF THE FENVELL ORCHID COMPANY 
Second and third generation of family now interested in business. 
Our company is now owned and operated 
by the second and third generations of the 
family that founded it. Thomas A. Fennell, Sr. 
(eldest son of L. A. Fennell, founder of the 
company), his wife Dorothy B., and their two 
sons Thomas A. Jr., and Dudley B. now own 
the company. 
At present Dorothy and Tom, Jr., devote 
all of their time to the business while Tom, 5r. 
spends his vacations with us as he is employed 
at his profession of tropical agricultural develop- 
ment in Puerto Rico. Dudley is a student at 
Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 
and also works with us only on vacations. 
(Tom, Jr., is still a student, on leave this year, 
and expects to return to Harvard next fall, 
where he is a Botany major in his third year.) 
Tom, Sr., and Dorothy have been growing 
orchids on a sizeable scale but as a paying hob- 
by, for the past 18 years, first here in Florida 
while Tom was in charge of the U. S. Plant In- 
troduction Garden at Coconut Grove, then at 
Beltsville, Maryland where he was Chief of 
Operations of the Agricultural Research Center 
and then in Haiti where he was Agricultural 
Adviser to the Haitian Government and Presi- 
dent-General Manager of the Haitian. American 
Agricultural Development Company. 
In 1944 they bought the assets of the Fennell 
Orchid Company from the other heirs of the 
founder and moved their collection from Haiti 
to Florida where it was combined with the or- 
iginal collection of the company. 
So there they are—or rather here we are, to 
serve you—a family steeped in orchid tradition 
with a fine collection and what we believe to be 
the best spot in the U. S. A. in which to grow 
our types of intermediate and warm house 
orchids. 

Superbum, D. Phalaenopsis, Bletia patula, B. 
patula alba, and over 1000 hybrids in and be- 
tween the various species and genera above. 
We will only mention a few of the out- 
standing plants of these hybrids — 
BLC Dorothy Fennell (at least 50 very fine 
varieties ranging from white to deep purple, all 
large, well shaped and with wonderful texture), 
L. C. Aphrodite alba (10 very fine varieties), 
Cy Portia burple hrmces (and 12eone lomother 
fine dark varieties), C. Persissima, C. Leda, C. 
Kedawalbas Cae Vionarchn Gat nid mGnmrnicdmot. 
Al banismivatiectyaum Onn Generales )acctlesm aml: 
Helen, BLC The Baroness, C. Admiration, C. 
Belgica, @) Champlain, €. Champion, (‘C)) Du- 
preanawGa Labian Ceibabianidy | @oubannaromee@. 
Fred Sander var Glorious, C. Furnes, C. Garry, 
C. General Pulteney, C. Hardyana, C. Maggie 
Rahpael, C. Marstonii, C. Mignard, C. Rajah, 
Ga Wityuss Ch inanon, BGs Princess (atticia, 
BLC Farrere, C. Bembridge alba, C. Bryan alba, 
C. Dame Blanche, C. Judah alba, C. Lady Alex- 
ander alba, ©. Lamartine, €; Merope alba, C. 
Odalisque, C. President Wilson alba, C. Prin- 
cess Royal alba, BC Le Poilu alba, LC Britannia 
alba, BLC Calife, BLC Costes, BLC. Alfred Mol- 
let var Vivid LC Altesse, L.C. Actinea, LC Arras, 
E@ Bachaeay LC Barres, LG Britannia, UC Claude 
Monet, LC Cyrano, LC Damae, LC Gaillard, LC 
Isle de France, LC Isabel Sander Rubra, LC James 
Rabel Cal ocelynsmels Cm \lariomsleouise man lame Or 
Marinid, LC Mermoz, LC Poussin, Dendrobium 
Mousmee, D. Bali, D. Hawaii Nui, D. Pauline, 
D. Gatton Monarch, D. Merlin, Renanthanda 
Sanderi, Phalaenopsis Confirmation, P. Kathe- 
rine Seigwart, P. Apparition, P. Avalanche, P. 
Elizabethae, P. Psyche, P. Venustis, P. Adonis, 
P. Grand Conde, P. Jardin des Plantes, P. Mar- 
moset, P. Reve Rose, P. Rothomogo, Vanda 
Miss Joachim, V. Rose Marie, V. Flammerole, 
V. Azur, V. Rothschildiana, V. Saphir and nu 
merous others. 
No cross is ever made by us unless we 
think it will produce good plants for our 
use. We never make a cross just to sell 
seed and we always plant some of the seed 
of each pod collected. We try to grow at 
least 100 plants of each lot for our own 
use and to see the range of variation with- 
in the lot. 
