WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T GROW ORCHIDS 
in your own home? Unless you are a cave dweller, 
living where the sun never shines, Cattleya Orchids 
will thrive and be happy in your Ryerson Orchidarium. 
As a matter of fact, orchids are much, MUCH 
sturdier than most people think. Personally, I’m con- 
vinced the mature Cattleya is the toughest plant under 
cultivation, surviving more mistreatment than a cactus. 
The plants would no doubt live if you grew them 
on the living room table, or on a shelf in the kitchen. 
But most artificially heated homes and apartments are 
too DRY for Orchids to grow vigorously and produce 
their maximum of blooms. 
The ORCHIDARIUM is scientifically designed to 
provide the necessary humidity. 
Even the Orchid Grower whose plants are grown in 
a greenhouse will enjoy having an ORCHIDARIUM 
in his home, as the ideal spot for displaying the 
choicest plants in bloom. 
PLANTS HOLD THEIR BLOOMS PERFECTLY a 
full week longer in the ORCHIDARIUM than they do 
in the average heated home. When sepals dry out 
and turn brown at tips—long before blooms should 
be fading—the air is too dry. 
Behind the drop door in the front of the ORCHID- 
ARIUM TABLE are the MOISTURE TRAY and 
THERMOSTATICALLY CONTROLLED HEATING 
CABLE. The cable should be held in place in the 
tray by gravel or pebbles, which also will help in- 
crease evaporation. 
Potted plants are placed on the lattice-type rack, 
through openings of which moist, warm air rises. 
Cool, dry air near your floor enters this humidifying 
compartment via intermittent round openings in the 
Marine Plywood base holding moisture tray. 
Glass doors at front of case slide open at a touch, 
for easy care of your plants. 
The ORCHIDARIUM accommodates eight average 
size plants, plus eight seedlings in 3-inch pots, or an 
assortment of both. 
CARE OF PLANTS IN YOUR ORCHIDARIUM 
Do not keep your Orchid plants TOO warm and 
wet. While they are tropical plants, they bitterly re- 
sent being drowned or cooked. Soggy, soaking fiber 
will make the roots rot, instead of stimulating them 
to vigorous growth. 
Orchid plants like plenty of light, but direct noon 
or afternoon sun will burn the foliage. Place the 
ORCHIDARIUM near a South or East window and 
give it filtered sunlight (through curtain or Venetian 
blind). 
As arule, if you set the thermostat at 75 in the day- 
time, 65 at night, the plants will do well for you. 
Room temperature must be considered, so check suc- 
tion cup thermometer that comes with the ORCHID- 
ARIUM. Keep plenty of water in moisture tray. If 
elass case becomes fogged, open sliding doors an inch 
until fog disappears. 
Remove plants from ORCHIDARIUM and give them 
“pot watering” once a week, allowing water to run 
through the fiber until it flows freely from drainage 
holes. Drain and return plants to ORCHIDARIUM. 
Do this during the morning hours. If you are away 
from home and skip one week’s watering, the plants 
will not suffer. 
Seedlings 

particularly community pots—will re- 
quire more moisture. Fog them with water from an 
atomizer type sprayer two or three times a day, but 
not after 3 P.M. 
THE RYERSON ORCHIDARIUM will be shipped, 
knocked down, but easy to assemble, and all fittings 
are included. The table is of unfinished redwood or 
fir, so it can be finished to match your own woodwork. 
Edges of crystal glass are polished and drilled to re- 
ceive fittings. 
Price, complete: $100.00, F.O.B. Homestead 
Shipment via Express, shipping charges collect. SAFE DELIVERY GUARANTEED 
Daniel Ryerson 
FLORIDA-GROWN ORCHIDS 
BOX 805 
HOMESTEAD, FLA. 
