Look at This Value! 
LAELIA 
ANCEPS 
Blooming Size 
Corsage Orchids 
$3.40 up 
A Holmes Exclusive! 
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There’s only one reason for this 
unbelievable Holmes price: we 
want you to start growing big fancy 
corsage Orchids this year! And 
Laelia Anceps makes every beginner 
a professional. It’s tough and 
vigorous, thrives outdoors the year 
‘round, loves full sun, and doesn’t 
seem to mind the cold. 
Never before. has a fully -ma- 
tured Florida-tested blooming size 
Orchid sold for less than twice 
this Holmes price. It’s an offer we 
may never repeat! 
Laelia Anceps is gorgeous lilac- 
rose to rose-purple. Produces two 
to five 4-in. Orchids at a time during 
Dec. and Jan. (and often again in 
June and July). 
We are enthusiastic about Laelia 
Anceps because of the way she 
has thrived in our patios and 
in our trees at Holmes Nursery 
for years. It is the one Orchid 
above all others that we recom- 
mend to anybody and everybody! 
Then as another special induce- 
ment, all Laelias are mounted, 
ready for hanging in your patio or 
trees! Hurry, be sure you get 
your share of these outstanding 
Orchids while our supply lasts. 
(Prices include mounting.) 
Laelia Anceps. Described above. 
Fine small plants, $1.90, 
Ready to Bloom, $3.40, $4.40, 3 
Huge blooming size, $7.40, 
Specimens in baskets, $7.40, $9.90 
Laelia Autumnalis. Scented rose- 
purple blooms, 4-in. size. Flower in 
Dec., Jan. 
Fine small plants, $2.40, $3.40 
Ready to Bloom, $4.40, $5.40 
Laelia Rubescens. Lilac-mauve to 
white, delightfully dainty Orchids 
1 to 2 in. across, with 4 to 8 buds. 
Prolific bloomer. Our mother plant 
had 52 blooms last Christmas Day, 
82 blooms in two weeks! 
Fine small plants, $2.40, $3.40 
Ready to Bloom, $4.40, $5.40 
WHEN TO BUY 
HOLMES 
ORCHID PLANTS! 
You’ve probably already discovered the 
secret! Have you noticed how prices 
increase substantially on the larger 
blooming sizes? 
That means the time to buy is now, 
while most of our plants are “ready 
to bloom.”’ You take them home, keep 
a month or two (depending upon months 
in which they bloom) and have Orchid 
plants in full flower. By giving them 
the last few months of care, you often 
save one-half or more! But if you de- 
lay purchasing for a month or two, 
when these same plants are in bloom 
in our nursery, you pay much more! 
LAELIA PURPURATA, outstanding Laelia 
Epidendrum Species. Grows in sprays with small 
showy flowers; wide variations in all plants. Blooming 
size, $2.90 up. 
Epidendrum Petite. Blooms profusely almost all 
winter in clusters of dozens of tiny Orchids at a time. 
Bright orange. Plant in garden. Blooming size, 98c 
to $2.90. 
HALL ORCHID COLLECTION 
See Florida’s greatest retail Orchid show this year at 
Holmes Nurseries! Holmes has acquired the entire 
collection of Hall of Opelika, Ala.—thousands of 
choice ‘‘corsage’’ Orchid plants, and every one will be 
sold at prices just a fraction of its worth! For years 
Hall’s has raised cut Orchids—sold them to florists all 
over America for re-sale to you at $5.00 to $10.00 per 
bloom! 
Now this year at Holmes, you can buy the same 
Epidendrum Cochleatum. 
purple blotches! 
Ready to Bloom, $3.40, $4.40. 
Epidendrum Atropurpureum. 
blooming flowers are large, long lasting, unusual. 
Ready to Bloom, $7.40, $8.90 up. 
Holmes EPIDENDRUM Orchids 
Guaranteed to Bloom for You! 
98c up 
One of the most interesting of all the Orchid families, and by far the 
most vigorous. Flowers range in size from big 4-in. corsage types to 
dainty blooms less than an inch in size. The smaller kinds make up in 
quantity what they lack in size, and all Epidendrums grow so vigorously 
they’re guaranteed to bloom for you! : . 
Epidendrum Nemorale. Big 4-in. corsage beauties. The giant of the 
family. Just hang it in the morning sun, spray with a hose, and it re- 
wards you with rosy mauve to rosy lilac blooms galore. 
I . Fashion coloring! It’s green, with maroon- 
<xcellent for baskets, trees. Small plants, $2.40 up; 
The ‘red’ of the family. Its free- 
Small sizes, $3.90; 
Epidendrum Fragrans. 
cause of its odor. Pot or 
blooms, easy to grow. 
blooming size, $3.90 up. 
Delightful for patios be- 
or mount in trees. Dainty 
Small sizes, $2.40 to $3.40; 
Epidendrum Mariae. Exotic! Small plants, but 
large flowers with greenish-yellow petals, white lip 
with green veins. Small plants, $3.40, $4.40; blooming 
size, $4.90, $6.90 up. 
NOW AT HOLMES NURSERY! 
plants that will bear two to four or five $5.00 Orchids 
for as little as $6.40! Plant and Flowers! 
These Hall Orchids, added to Holmes own huge 
stock, bring you the biggest collection of salable Or- 
chids ever assembled-retail in Florida! Come out 
today and thrill to their gorgeous beauty. Then multi- 
ply your thrill a hundred times by buying your own 
Orchid plants and raising them yourself! It’s easy— 
we'll prove it! 
