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# MARS 1 1952 
U. S. Department of Agriculture | 
THE EXOTIC PLANT COMPAKY, 
Under new lanagement. 
Presents sm aVeow ey 
A Spring get together-offer-to it!s old Customers 
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The policy of the new Management of this Company is to pass on to the Customer 
any acvantage which might be enjoyed by us such as the present good fortune in have- 
ing made new connections with gatherers in the field by which fresh plants may be 
obtained at good prices. This new shipment is limited but will consist of the best 
plants obtainable from the wild in the Species -namediimthe.folLowing-list. Please 
place your order early and be sure to obtain your share of the freshly collected 
plantse 
CATTLEYA CITRINA: This plant is now showing bud, Many of these will arrive 
before their blooming season and should make good Mother's Day presentse The 
flowers which droop are of good texture, soft golden yellow and very fragrant, hence 
the name Citrina from their resemblence to the smell of fresh Lemonse Although the 
flower does not open up as well as Laelia Grandiflora, it is practically as largens 
The droopy form gives it the apperance of a Tulip and it is from this that the new. 
Tulip Orchid orginated. A good plant and a good bloomer. 
; Price « » + $3a50 
CATTLEYA SKINNERII: «good Cattleya and quite hardy, requiring about the seme 
care that most of the more hardy Cattleyas need. Grows well attached to a good 
Piece of Oak Limb with the bark on it and with plenty of water and a good amount cf 
light throughout the summer months. The flowers are a Rose Violet color and grov 
in 2 cluster of from five to fifteen, each flower being from three to five inches 
across,» This shipment: will consist of good plants ready to establish for next 
years growthe . . 
3 Price ee @ $3.00 
BRASSAVOLAE GLAUCA: Another close relative of the Laelias which at times is 
referred to as Laelia Glauca. This large: flower is very fragrant, white after the 
first flush of creamy green which is always a fore runner of the white species, 
with a small suffusion of purple and vellow in the throat. A very desirable Orchid. 
ree prechee Price « « « $2.50 
EPIDENDRUM ALATUM: An ovid bulb type Epidendrum much resembling E. Nemorale 
and E, autropurpureum in forme The blooms are very fragrant and quite large, grow- 
ing in a spike of from five to twelve flowers about two inches acrosSe The Lip 
is very soft purple and the Sepals and Petals are of a brownish green color. The 
flowers are very attractive. 
Price 4 « « $3600 
EPIDENDRUM NEMORALE: This is a very lovely orchid when it sports it's Violet 
Mauve, three inches blossoms in the multi-blossomed spike of from eight to thirty 
blossoms of a lovely fragrances This plant is coming in limited numberse Orders 
will be filled according to the amount received trying to allow as many to each 
order as possible. Large plants. 
Price . « « $3600 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CITROSNUMs An odontoglossum which in form of flower much 
resembles a Phalinopsis, It's fragrance is very pleasing as also is the soft beauty 
of it's many flowered pendant spikes of fair sized flowers, 
Price @ . e $3.50 
ONCIDIUM LEUCOEHLEUL: Another very fragrant Orchid which has long sprays of 
chestnut colored flowers with a sizeable white lip. This is a good plant to furnish 
arching spikes among the more upright growing Orchids. 
Price -»!'¢ (4 $2.50 
all prices F.0.B. Laredo, Texas 
This list superceeds all previous price lists from this Company. 
NO ORDERS LESS THAN $ 5,00 PLEASE. 
