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MAKING A HOBBY OF ORCH DS * JAN3 11959 y% 
In our files are many nice letters informing us of the success of Uo sORB2 rep ah A Heyricutture 
for the first time by people whose age ranges from 9 years to 70 yearse = ~~ 
We are especially gratified with the visits we have had from people all over the 
United States and they are as welcome whether they buy or just talk, orchids. 
Our business grew from our Hobby and we still consider it as such in many ways. 
Somehow we feel that when we obtain a new customer who wants one plant to start we 
have made a new convert into the fascinating pleasure of growing the ultimate in 
flowers. Truly they ere the jewels of the flower kingdom and a new seedling bloom- 
ing for the first time is as interesting to us as the final chapter of a good book. 
Due to the many requests we have had for a more descriptive list, we respectfully 
submit our new one hoping that it might help with your selection. We join with 
all those who offer plants to the amateur in recommending the species as a begin- 
ning. Although we offer hybrids from time to time our greatest business is with 
the more robust, and in many cases finer flowered species. 
We wish to take this opportunity of thanking all those hundreds of customers for 
their past patronage and to wish them continued success with their hobby. 
OFFICE GREENHOUSE 
106 Midland Ave. 122 Gregory Ave. 
Montclair, N. Jd. We Orange, N. J. 
Mo.2~7083 Or «3-5619 
HOUSE OF ORCHIDS 
pears, 
Margaret D. Fox Howard 5, Fox 
CATTLEYA 
This genus is the most popular of all orchids. They include beauty with useful- 
noes and are included with the intermediate varieties growing at a temperature of 
607 to 65°. 1 
Bowringiana Brazil October $5. - $10 
Rose purple in clusters of 5 to 15 flowers, much darker on the lip. 
Dowiana Warm Central America Summer $15. - $20 
Yellow sepals & petals, purple lip streaked with gold. 
Gigas Warm Colombia Summer $8. - $15 
Rose sepals and petals, lip crimson purple with gold markings in 
throat. The largest of the species. 
Labiata Brazil Autumn $52 ~- $10 
Bright rose, lip deep crimson purple. 
Mendelii Colombia Summer $5 — $2A 
Variable, white to pale purple sepals and petals with magenta or 
purple lip. 
Mossiae Venezuela Spring $8.50 
Flowers larger, variable. Rose with crimson lip, yellow markings. 
Schroderae Colombia Spring $5~ — $10 
Light rose, deeper on lip, with gold throat. Sweetly scented. 
Trianae Colombia Dec. to March $4. — $7.50 
Very variable, sepals and petals blush, lip crimson purple, gold 
in throat. 
CALANTHE = Warm 
A beautiful white spray of the hybrid Harrisii. They are warm types and the 
bulb should be handled about the same as an amaryllis. Flowers in the winter 
months. 
Dormant bulbs — January to April $3.00 each 
CYMBIDIUM = Cool 
Yellow and pink hybrids. Blooming size only. $15. and up. 
