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Volume 2 




FENNELL'S 
AN - ORCHID - A - MONTH 
CLUB 
Three New Selections — Rare 
and Interesting 
HIS period our “Orchid a Month Club” 
features three very interesting and 
beautiful orchids — two species and a 
hybrid. All are easily grown and each 
should bloom within the coming year. 
Full particulars of the Club are given on 
the reverse side of the application blank 
included with this issue. If you are not a 
member yet — join NOW. 
The orchids for this quarter are:— 
APRIL — Oncidium lanceanum — A 
beautiful, large flowered On- 
cidium with yellow and choc- 
olate sepals and petals and 
a bright lavender lip. Easily 
grown with Cattleyas. 
1 lead plants $6.50 each 
MAY —Phalaenopsis Reve Rose x P. 
Schilleriana — Reve Rose is 
the darkest, finest Phalaenop- 
sis we have seen and the 
Schilleriana parent is a very 
fine dark one. Should be 
large, pink with many very 
fine. 
3” pots 3 to 5” across leaves $10.00 
2'/2'" pots 2 to 3’ across leaves 6.00 
JUNE — Cattleya Deckeri — A bright 
lavender cluster Cattleya 
blooming in the fall. Large 
and showy clusters of 3 inch 
flowers. 
1 lead plants 4 or 5" pots 
2 lead plants 5 or 6” pots 
$5.00 each 
10.00 each 
Alternates for any of the above can be 
picked at regular catalog prices from our 
lists of February Ist or APR Ist. Any plants 
or seed on these lists may be included 
and will earn the club discounts. 
The premium plant for this period is a 
beautiful Dendrobium — our choice. We 
have a number of fine and interesting va- 
rieties valued at from $5.00 to $10.00 each. 
We will include one with each club order 
for plants totalling $20.00 or more. A $5.00 
plant with a $20.00 order and a $10.00 
plant with a $3000 or more order. These 
are propagations in 21!/,"’ and 3” pots. They 
should bloom on their next growths. BE 
SURE TO STATE WHETHER YOU WANT 
PLANTS SHIPPED WITH OR WITHOUT 
POTS, BY EXPRESS, AIR EXPRESS, MAIL 
or AIR MAIL. 
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April 1, 
LD Book 

Vanda Saphir var. Profusion 
VANDAS 
The Orchid of the Future 
PROBABLY, the most productive orchids 
we have are Vandas. One _ hybrid 
Vanda last year (V. Saphir) produced 81 
beautiful blue flowers, worth from $.75 to 
$1.50 each (according to the time of year 
produced) plus two good seed pods. Jt 
produced seven spikes of flowers during 
the year. Other hybrid Vandas produced 
nearly as well — Gilbert Triboulet and 
Flammerole each produced 26 and 37 
blooms respectively, and many of our 
terete and semi-terete hybrids produced 
two or three spikes with 10 to 15 flowers 
each, 
Vandas, with the exception of a very 
few, love heat and light, conditions that 
those of us in the south can easily give 
them. V. Caerulea, and a few others of 
the species are supposed to require cool, 
intermediate conditions, but we grow them 
with our Vanda hybrids and I believe we 
do as well with them as anyone else I've 
seen. 
Probably the worst mistake most grow- 
ers make with Vandas is in considering 
them as epiphytes. It is true that most of 
them are vine-like and push their roots 
out in the air but they never do well if 
leggy nor until they have a big proportion 
of their roots in good compost. Next to 
the truly terrestial orchids Vandas require 
the most food and feeding. 

EXTRA 
A Bigger and Better Orchid 
Seed List in This Issue 
E’VE worked hard and long to bring 
you our present seed list. It contains 
the finest orchid seed available from plants 
that are carefully selected for their 
strength of growth, flowering ability, flower 
shape, color, size and blooming season. 
We've spent over forty years in getting 
together the fine parent plants used in 
these crosses. They are representative of 
the best orchids available in Europe, Latin 
America and the United States. We've 
called upon our best experience in mating 
these plants to create for you, and for our- 
selves, the finest orchids possible. 
If you were willing to pay $1000.00 
each for your stud plants you still couldn't 
duplicate some of these crosses as we own 
the entire stock of the proven parents used. 
We guarantee our seed to germinate. If 
for some reason it does not germinate and 
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you believe the poor result to be the fault _/ 
of the seed we will gladly send you ari- 
other packet of a comparable type, abso- 
lutely free of charge. AND FOR EVERY 
FIVE PACKETS YOU BUY IN ANY ONE 
ORDER WE INCLUDE ONE, OUR CHOICE, 
ABSOLUTELY FREE. 
The terete (V. teres, V. Miss Joachim, 
etc.) and semi-terete (hybrids between 
terete and strap-leaved varieties) types 
are often grown as terrestials and fed 
heavily with cow manure. We grow them 
on picket fences with their roots in a com- 
post of rotten osmundine, grass and 
leaves, cow manure and some sandy 
loam. To this we add weekly waterings 
with a weak fertilizer solution. (Manure 
water, made by soaking a bushel of cow 
manure or a peck of chicken manure in 
a barrel of water overnight, or a solution 
of one tablespoon of Hyponex per gallon 
of water are satisfactory.) 
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