
BLC Dorothy Fennell var. Perfection #4505 
One of our very best. Strong growing, 
heavy textured and floriferous. Blooms in 
December. Typical of our plants of this 
hybrid which we believe to be the best 
commercial orchid yet produced. We use 
Dorothy Fennell varieties often in our 
crosses as we believe that, as a group, 
they're the best we've seen. They produce 
from two to four flowers per spike and 
their color varies from nearly pure white 
to deep purple. Their shape, size and tex- 
ture are always good. This variety is 
white. (See seed list.) 
TREE FERN FIBER 
Natures Best Material 
for Orchid Culture 
After a great deal of trouble we 
have obtained a good supply of this 
rare and excellent material for or- 
chid culture. It is cut in squares two 
inches thick and in the following 
dimensions. The chunks are cross 
sections of the tree fern stem and 
vary in thickness from two to six 
inches each, 
Squares 4" wide x 4” long 
Six pieces for $3.00 
Squares 6” wide x 6” long 
Six pieces for $6.50 
Squares 8” wide x 8” long 
Six pieces for $10.00 
Chunks, six assorted sizes for $5.00 
ALL PRICES F.O.B. HOMESTEAD, 
FLA. MAY BE SHIPPED PARCEL 
POST C.0.D. OR RAILWAY EXPRESS 
COLLECT. 

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Temperature Requirements of Orchids 
Many of our readers have asked for our 
ideas on temperature in greenhouses used 
for orchids. 
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Orchids are pretty husky plants and, 
within reason, they'll stand a lot of tem- 
perature variation. It can safely be said 
that any temperature between 32 degrees 
and 110 degrees fahrenheit is safe for short 
periods on all or nearly all tropical or- 
chids. On the other hand here are our 
ideas of optimum day and night tempera- 
tures for a number of species and hybrids. 
Night Day 
Cattleya trianae $5-70 65-100 
Cattleya Lueddemannia 55-70 65-100 
Cattleya Schroderae 55-70 65-100 
Cattleya Mossiae-Gigas 55-70 65-100 
Cattleya hybrids 55-70 65-100 
Phalaenopsis 65-75 70-100 
Vanda caerulea 50-60 60- 80 
Vanda tricolor, suavis, } 
Vanda caerulescens, }$ 60-75 70-100 
Sanderiana J 
Vanda strap leaved hybrids 60-75 70-100 
Vanda terete leaved 
hybrids 60-70 70-100 
Dendrobium nobile and 
hybrids 50-60 60-100 
Dendrobium phalaenopsis 
and hybrids 60-70 70-100 
Calanthes 50-70 60-100 
Phaius 50-70 60-100 
Oncidiums—splendidum, 
Ornithorynchum 
Sphacelatum, 
Goldianum, 
etc. 50-70 60-100 
Cymbidiums 45-60 SO- 80 
Cypripediums, mottled 
leaved types 60-70 70-100 
Cypripediums, green 
leaved types 45-60 5S0- 80 
The lower temperatures for both night 
and day should be considered the winter 
optimum and the higher ones the summer 
tops. You can usually go ten or so de- 
grees above or below for periods of even 
a day or so without real damage. 
When it gets very hot in the summer 
watch your shade and your leaf tempera- 
tures — when leaves get warm to the 
touch they're getting dangerous. Actual 
burning occurs on the leaf when its tem- 
perature goes above 120-125 for even 
short periods. 
In cold weather water very sparingly — 
wet cold roots are likely to die. A dry 
plant will stand several degrees more cold 
than a wet one. Most orchids — cattleyas, 
etc. will usually stand several degrees be- 
low freezing for two or three hours with- 
out injury, if dry. 
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As we drove into the town we noticed 
that things were not normal — everybody 
seemed hurrying toward the center of 
town and many of them were carrying 
beds — some were sleigh beds, but others 
were 1910 brass beds, iron beds, wooden 
beds — any and all kinds of beds. 
As we drove further thru the crowd we 
saw a veritable mob of people around 
Dorothy's warehouse all milling around 
and most of them with beds or parts of 
beds on their heads. There was a lot of 
excited jabbering going on in creole. We 
got out, inquired, and found that someone 
had said that a “femme Americaine’’ was 
buying beds and each and all wanted to 
sell his bed. 
We finally pushed our way into the 
warehouse and here were Dorothy and 
Virrick practically snowed under with beds 
and deluged with hundreds of yelling 
salesmen each insisting that his bed was 
the best. 
Every minute, more peasants with more 
beds on their heads arrived — one even 
still had the mattress, sheets and pillows 
— it was ready for use. Another fell apart 
in the street and was lost in the mob. 
The jabbering which had been a mur- 
murous hum became louder and higher 
pitched and I became worried. | dis- 
patched “Sim” for the police. Dorothy 
wanted only two beds,—we had most of 
the beds of the town to choose from — I'm 
afraid many of the townspeople slept on 
the floor that night, but with the mob ex- 
citement it was impossible to do anything 
or to make a decision. 
A few minutes later we were escorted 
thru the milling throng to our car by the 
gendarmes and escaped, but without even 
one bed. The next morning, just before we 
left, Dorothy very quietly bought two 
sleigh beds which we have in our house 
at Homestead. Every time I see those beds 
I'm covered with cold sweat as I think of 
the time we were surrounded by that yell- 
ing, sweating mob at Port-de-Paix. 
NOTICE HAWAITAN 
CUSTOMERS 
Our FENORCO PLANT SPRAY for 
orchid pests particularly cock- 
roaches, scale, thrips, Dendrobium 
beetle, etc., is now available through 
Mr. William Kirch, 3023 Waipuna 
Drive, Honolulu 15, Hawaii. Try it, 
it's the best Orchid Spray yet de- 
veloped. We've never had a kick 
on it. 

