As you can see in the picture, the lady is planting 
Orchid seed by the medicine dropper method. 
She is a typical Orchid hobbyist, who owns some 
mature, blooming size plants, some seedlings, and 
has reached the stage of wanting to try some seed 
flasking. 
Her first flasking was done in the bathroom, which 
she sterilized and steamed to the best of her ability. 
This operation required about two hours of hard 
work, not counting the actual flasking operation. 
Then she had to wait for the steam to settle, and 
meanwhile she sweated in that hot, moist atmos- 
phere, so that by the time she emerged, she was 
completely wilted and slightly ill from Clorox 
fumes. 
She had a pretty fair percentage of success for 
that kind of operation, but in spite of that, two of 
her twelve flasks eventually developed small spots 
of mold. 
Back into the bathroom they went—the lady and 
the two contaminated flasks. Sterilizing and steam- 
ing took place again. Then she carefully removed 
the two spots of mold and treated the cavities with 
Clorox solution. 
Contrast that with the ease with which she now 
uses her Flasking Case. She can clean out the 
case, install her equipment, sow twelve flasks or 
transplant from two seedling flasks to twelve fresh 
ones . . . all in less time than it formerly required 
to sterilize the bathroom! 
She places the little flasking case in the coolest, 
airiest room in the house, letting the fresh Florida 
breezes blow on her while the seed, seedlings and 
agar are completely protected from air-borne mold 
spores. 
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Kyerson EXPANSIBLE ORCHID FOLDER 
When she has all the fine hybrid seedlings she 
can take care of, she plans to do some seed sowing 
and transplanting for her local Orchid Growing 
friends . . . unless, of course, by that time they 
have flasking cases of their own! 
Even if you have been successful with seed flask- 
ing, you will find the flasking case invaluable in 
the TRANSPLANTING of seedlings from flask to 
flask. 
The flasks must be open so much longer for this 
delicate operation . . . and of course you cannot 
STERILIZE tiny seedlings as you do Orchid seed 
. that it is practically impossible to have 100% 
success in transplanting without a flasking case. 
As To THE ADVANTAGES OF TRANSPLANTING: 
1. You gain up to six months in growing time, if 
seedlings are transplanted to fresh agar at the 
proper stage, ie, when about 14” tall, with root 
growth just starting. 
2. It is almost impossible to sow just exactly the 
ideal amount of seed and space it evenly on the 
agar. In transplanting, you can place each tiny 
seedling so it has plenty of room. It is possible to 
transplant in such a way that you skip the com- 
munity pot stage altogether, growing your seedlings 
in 1000cc flasks until they are ready for individual 
pots! 
3. If flasks are not transplanted, they usually stay 
in the same flask about a year. By that time, they 
are often overcrowded; the seedlings rather lanky 
and spindly; the roots so knotted together they are 
difficult to separate without destroying many of 
them. Thus the mortality in community pot stage 
is much higher than with transplanted flasks. 
If you want to buy my sterile bottles of Orchid agar, all prepared, ready for seed sowing or transplanting, 
they are available at $2.00 per bottle, for your own seed or seedlings; $1.00 per bottle for seed bought from 
me. 
Or, if you want the Orchid Agar with all the essential ingredients except distilled water, I'll sell it to you 
in dry, powder form . . 
in your pressure cooker. 
. with instructions for adding the distilled water, cooking it, and “autoclaving” it 
This takes no more work than canning fruit and vegetables via the pressure cooker method and will save 
you considerably in shipping charges, for the prepared flasks do run into weight. Prices on request. 
PRICE OF GLASS-TOPPED FLASKING CASE: $25.00 
(Shipping charges collect.) 
DANIEL RYERSON ©®~— Box 805 e 
HOMESTEAD, FLA. 
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