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ORCHIDS BY TURNER, INC. Of Agriculture 
North Attleboro, Massachusetts 
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Many new and very beautiful hybrid Cattleya and allied genera orchids come into 
bloom each year. Progressive growers gradually. replace older crosses with the finest of 
these new plants. Seedlings of any one cross may follow the characteristics of either 
parent or even of grandparents. Obviously then desirability and value will vary and the 
grower has the choice of purchasing the best at high prices or of growing his own. 
For several years we have been engaged in developing our own seedling stock. 
We can not use all of the seedlings from each cross we make and therefore in response to 
inquiries from many of our seedling customers, we are offering seed in 2 flask and 10 
flask packages as well as germinated seedlings in 250 c.c. and 500 c.c. flasks. 
Most orchid seed should be planted as soon as possible after it is "ripe", although 
under proper care it should remain viable. at least up to six months. As each of our crosses 
becomes ready we ship out by air mail all "advance" orders for seed and will flask a part of 
the rest. 
Realizing that many hobbyists may not care to go through all the trials and tribula- 
tions of assembling and mixing the necessary ingredients, we prepare sterile flasks (250 c.c. 
and 500 c.c. size) with solutions all ready for planting and provide instructions which, if 
carefully followed, should give you the desired results. 
Included with the following descriptions are "vital statistics", i.e., date of poll- 
ination, date of harvest and date flasks are planted. We offer seed in advance of "harvest" 
in the belief that you would prefer to have it as soon as it is ready to be planted. We test 
"viability" and can determine the amount you will need in order to germinate some 250 to 
300 seedlings in the large flasks and approximately one-half of that in the smaller. 
With seed orders only, sterile flasks ready for planting with instructions and all 
necessary materials: < 
250 c.c.---$1.00 each 
500 c.c.--- 1.50 each 
With this offering we are starting a new series of numbers. All previous seed and 
Flask offers are hereby cancelled. Many of the crosses we are making are between complex 
hybrids and very fine species, our purpose being to increase productivity and vigor. We ship 
only viable seed, but of course, can not guarantee your crop. 
We use a rigid system of grading our plants. For so-called "commercial" quality we 
use no marking, or one star for the better ones. Stud quality plants are graded with two to 
four stars and we take into consideration,quality, texture, size, color of bloom, also vigor 
of plant, frequency of bloom, tendency of dividing into more than one lead, etc. 
