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VANDA SANDERIANA VARIETY HAWAII 
Advance Offering of Seedlings in 250cc Flasks 
At long last I can promise you some top quality Vanda Sanderiana seedlings in 
200ce flasks. This biggest, most colorful and rarest of all the Vanda Orchids 
has been featured and illustrated in so many issues of The American Orchid 
Society Bulletin that most of you are familiar with its characteristics, if 
not with the plants and blooms themselves. 
The first Bulletin to feature it was the September, 1937 issue, with a full - 
page illustration on page 22, and David Lumsden's description on the opposite 
page, from which I quote: 
“Of the many species of orchids introduced by Mr. Sander, this is perhaps the 
most outstanding. In color the upper sepal of the flower is soft rose, suf- 
fused with whites the lower two, larger, tawny yellow are crossed and re- 
crossed with sanguineous-red veins; petals, smaller than sepals, are colored 
like the upper sepal, with a tawny, red-spotted blotch near the bases; lip, com- 
paratively small, basal half concave, is tawny yellow, streaked red; front 
part chocolate purple." 
A specimen plant from the Missouri Botanical Garden was used to illustrate 
the cover of the November, 1943, issue. The editorial description on Page 205, 
states: "Probably the finest of Vanda species is Vanda Sanderiana. It is 
larger in all respects than V. coerulea, the flowers being about five inches 
acrosse The brilliant, almost lurid coloring is in strange contrast to the 
ethereal blue of V. coerulea." 
The most recent issue to feature it is the November 1948 issue, including a 
nice illustration. Small wonder that it commands such "fancy" price as forty 
dollars and up for a blooming size plant! 
The seedlings of the Vanda Senderiana var. Hawaii which I now have in flasks, 
are from particularly large and dark parent blooms, selected from the best of 
three generations. They are not only a larger and darker strain than those 
more recently introduced, but the seedlings are sturdier and grow more rapidly 
than first seedlings from newly imported plants. 
Because I have only a limited quantity of these seedlings, I have trans- 
planted them sparsely into 250cc flasks, with 50 or more well spaced seedlings 
per flask, which not only gives them more room to grow, but will give more of 
you @ chance to own your share of theme 
They will be ready for shipment about June first. 
Order now and pay a deposit of half the cost, and your flask or flasks will 
be reserved for you until June First. 
One 250ce flask with fifty or more seedlings: $15.00 
Two or more; $12.50 each. 
Deposit required to reserve one flask for June First shipments $ 7.50 
: two flasks " ? a $12.50 
Offer made subject to prior sale. First come, first served, 
