‘The: Grapevine 
NAGLE. 74 
MARCH, 1952 
COST OF CYMBIDIUMS FROM BURMA SHAVED JU. S. Department of Agriculture 
LIQUIDATION! DISPOSAL! SALE! ETC. 
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Cymbidium Orchids—originally from Burma and for the last quarter 
century naturalized citizens of Southern California—are now quite 
comfortably established as garden favorites in this area. Certain va- 
rieties begin to flower before Christmas and as the season advances 
they are joined by more and more rivals but it is in the month of March 
that these outdoor Orchids really launch a display worthy of their name. 
We are pleased, therefore, to be able to call your attention this 
month to an opportunity to start or add to your collection of Cym- 
bidiums at a very reasonable cost. This is made possible because a 
commercial grower of these plants for cut-flower purposes is liqui- 
dating his enterprise and has commissioned Evans and Reeves to sell 
the entire stock of flowering size plants at prices considerably under 
cost. (For as little as seven dollars you may purchase a Cymbidium 
plant in bloom which can bring you years of garden interest and 
pleasure. ) 
In support of this assertion we 
would like to point to our own 
display planting of these Orchids 
in our main lathhouse. Relatively 
small plants were set out here 
about six years ago and though 
since accorded a minimum of at- 
tention have prospered to the ex- 
tent that Raitt plants now 
bear as many as three hundred 
blossoms! What has been done 
here might be easily duplicated 
on an equal or smaller scale in 
thousands of local gardens and 
we honestly feel that dollar for 
dollar nothing will give you more 
gardening satisfaction. 
Many colors are represented in 
this offering — pink, rose, green, 
yellow, brown, etc., in large sizes 
and small. All will be potted in a 
manner which will permit their cul- 
ture as pot plants if desired, or, 
if a garden planting is planned, an 
added saving may be effected by 
transferring the Orchids directly 
to the prepared soil. 
