VIRGIN ORCHID - Continued 
I have seen it growing in great 
masses on the enormous limbs of Saman 
trees in Venezuela. There it was 
protected by only a sparse high 
shade. Thousands of plants in bloom 
at the same time, their spikes nod- 
ding and waving in the tropical 
breeze, make a wonderful sight. The 
first tree I saw so decorated was, I 
thought, covered with thousands of 
its own blooms - I could see it 
standing out on the hillside neatly 
a half mile away - a gnarled ol 
giant with wooly white limbs against 
the green of the hillside. 
As I came nearer I saw it to be, 
really, a tree covered with thousands 
of lovely Virgin orchids. I photo- 
graphed it but, unfortunately, the 
icture does not do its subject 
justice. 
The Virgin orchid should be in 
every collection where cattleyas are 
grown. It is not well known 
primarily because it has been very 
difficult to obtain. We have nice 
plants of it now and at least for the 
present it is available. 
Bee 
Some people carefully and labor- 
iously scrub the scale off their 
orchids --- others use FENORO. 
ORCHID SEED - Continued 
For several years we have been 
charting the effect our various stud 
ponte have on their offspring and 
ope eventually to have a pretty 
clear record of the various results 
We can expect. 
In géneral, however, we try to 
cross advanced hybrids with fine 
varieties of species to set the 
blooming season with the species and 
to obtain the good points of the 
hybrids. For instance, there are 
very few good round, wide petalled 
Mossiaes but Mossiae blooms at a 
bpd & important season so we cross it 
with wide petalled, heavy textured 
hybrids like LC Altesse which also 
blooms in the late winter and spring. 
If you want to be sure of the 
quality of the parentage used in 
producing your orchid seed buy it 
from us - we are the only concern 
in the country making a large scale 
pease of producing orchid seed for 
sale. 
ake 
Orchids are strong, easily grown 
plants that'll stand most anything 
and usually bave to. 
Chief orchid pests --- in reverse 
order --- Thrips, slugs, scale and 
Aunt Emmy with the hose. 
Nice tall dark green plants mean 
much tying up and few blooms. 
Orchid seed is as good as the firm 
behind it. 

C. TRIANAE VAR MARY FENNELL 
We believe this to be the finest 
trianae variety ever found. Color 
of s&p deep glowing lavender, lip 
deep crimson purple with gold throat, 
substance peor ys Bhape large and 
round. The petals are touched on the 
end with the deep crimson of the lip. 
Flowers at the holiday season and 
produces its flowers in twos and 
threes. Plant very strong growing 
usually producing two flowering bulbs 
ah. lead. Used widely in our crosses. 
ese flowers brought $6.50 to $7.50 
each at New Year’s. 
Cluster and Spray Cattleyas 
A New Trend in Orchid Breeding 
The cluster cattleyas C. 
Bowringianag, LC)G. 5. Balloac. 
Maxima, C. Superba, C. Deckeri, C. 
Skinneri, and C. Guatemalensis with 
Laelias anceps and purpurata when 
cressed with large cattleyas and 
hybrids, produce very beautiful and 
saleable biovera? Generally speaking, 
these flowers are from 34 to 6 inches 
in diameter and are borne in sprays 
or clusters of from four to ten or 
twelve flowers. 
These flowers are admirably adapted 
to corsages and generally bring from 
one-half to two-thirds the price of 
the large hybrids - as a result the 
plants are often more profitable than 
even the best large flowered hybrids. 
They give interesting variation to 
the usual orchid fare and are recon- 
mended for every collection, but 
particularly for those with retail 
sales outlets who want and need some- 
thing different but not too expensive 
to aise their customers. 
The seedlings of these crosses are 
usually strong and fast growing. 
We are crossing cluster Cattleyas 
and Laelias with some of our best and 
largest varieties of Brasso-cattleyas, 
Laelio-cattleyas, and Cattleyas and 
sapees some very fine things from 
them. 
We have seed, flasks and community 
pots of crosses of this type in our 
present offerings. 
Flasks Available 
For Immediate Shipment 
We have a few flasks of the follow- 
ing crosses available for immediate 
delivery in the South and Southwest 
and for March 15-April 1 delivery 
anywhere. State in your order when 
you want shipment made: 
No. 753 - Le. G.S. Ball Nhe b cote 
Purpurata Alba 
Should make yellow or cream s. & p. 
with dark lip--several flowers each 
about 4 inches in diameter in the 
spring. $15.00 per flask 
* 
No. 758 - L. Anceps Sanderiana (white 
S.6P.) x BLC Dorothy 
Fennell (white S. & P.) 
Two very fine parents--late fall 
and winter blooming--probably will 
produce some albas and some colored 
flowers. $20.00 per flask 
* 
No. 747 - BLC Dorothy Fennell 46239 x 
C. Trianae 46240 
A fine large lavender Dorothy 
Fennell crossed with a very dark fine 
trianae-should be excellent and 
winter blooming. $20.00 per flask 
* 
Anceps Sanderiana (white 
& P.) x C. Mossiae 
Viscount Kitchener (pure 
white) 
Should be winter or spring blooming. 
$25.00 per flask 
No. 775 - L. 
Ss. 
Anceps Alba (white 
& P.) x C. Odalisque 
(pure white) 
No. 7 767-)C- 
S. 
Should be winter blooming. 
$25.00 per flask 
No. 777 - C. Bowingiana Purple 
Princess x C. Eva Shill 
Should be a fine fall or winter, 
medium sized dark cluster cattleya. 
$15.00 per flask 
* 
No. 778 - C. Bowingiana Purple 
Princess x BLC Alfred 
Mollet var Vivid 
Should be a very fine dark cluster 
BC with medium sized flowers with 
large lips. $15.00 per flask 
All flasks are packed especially for 
shipping by express. We have shipped 
age of them all over the continent 
without a single loss. They are 
ready for transplanting when you 
receive them. 
weer 
‘The flasks arrived in excellent 
condition. The unique manner of 
poretng prevented the plants from 
ecoming dislodged from the agar and 
so they were not injured in any way 
by their journey. * -- California 
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