ORDERING 
Orders may be placed early to reserve your selections but shipments will be 
made only when weather conditions permit so that safe delivery to your door 
can be assured. Orchid plants must be guarded against chilling since they 
may not recover from the set-back suffered thereby. 
If you have a choice, please specify the approximate time that you would 
like to receive your order, otherwise, we will notify you a few days in ad- 
vance of shipment so that you can be ready to receive your order. The safe 
shipping period opens about May fifteenth and continues through October. 
Plants can be safely shipped by Air Express within the Continental United 
States any time during the season when there is a mild day to safely trans- 
port the package from the greenhouse to the airport, since arrangements 
have been made with the Airlines to carry these perishable parcels inside 
the plane at room temperature. If shipment is made to a cold area, plans 
should be made to pick up the parcel upon arrival so that it does not have 
to travel around in an unheated delivery truck. Shipment during the cold- 
est part of the winter is discouraged. 
When you place your order please mention a second choice if you have one, 
otherwise we will notify you that we cannot fill your order. NO SUBSTI- 
TUTIONS WILL BE MADE WITHOUT SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS 
FROM YOU. 
PRINT OR TYPE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS CLEARLY. 
INCLUDE DEFINITE SHIPPING INSTRUCTIONS WITH ALL ORDERS: 
Please specify whether you wish your package sent by Air Mail; Air Parcel 
Post; regular mail; Air Express; Air Freight; or Railway Express. 
Prompt delivery of your plants is important. 
SHIPMENTS 
Selection of the finest and largest plants available in each lot of the crosses 
included in your order will be made; however, please remember that all 
crosses do not attain the same size at the same time, therefore do not ex- 
pect to receive all seedlings of equal size when ordering various crosses. 
They may or may not be the same and the explanation is simple: all of the 
tubes are not started at the same time therefore the period of growth varies 
in each case placing different crosses at an individual stage of development. 
Furthermore, different parent plants evidence different growing habits 
which are cften reflected in the seedlings produced by these plants. The 
amount of sun during any one season plays as important part in the growth 
of plants also so that the seedlings from one cross may even vary somewhat 
from one year to another. Be assured that you will receive the best from the 
lot that you have ordered. 
ALL SHIPMENTS ARE MADE F.0O.B. ROSLYN, L. I, NEW YORK and 
there is no additional charge made for packing. 
