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growers seldom offer our BEST blooming size plants for sale? Or, when we do, we price them 
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HAVE YOU EVER FELT — as some of my 
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friends have complained — that we commercia 
beyond the reach of your rig Budget? Cee HaMo cia ay rt i ve i 
| MUST ADMIT there is some justification for your feeling. When | bloom an Orchid of prize 
winning, stud quality. | know that if it will ripen a good seed pod, the pod will bring me more 
than | could get for the plant. . APL secret Oe Tee te ieae ie 
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FORTUNATELY, THERE IS A WAY you can afford plants which might produce prize winning = 
blooms. BUY UNBLOOMED SEEDLINGS of choice crosses. No one has picked the best because 
no one can judge which will be best until it blooms. eee te 
YOUR CHANCE OF GETTING A PRIZE WINNER — without paying a premium price —is 
just as good as anyone's. aye ek 
YES, | KNOW EVERY NEW HYBRID is ballyhooed to produce outstanding flowers. Bae ape 
each plant blooms, no one — not even the hybridizer — can be CERTAIN of the results. Some — 
are bound to be better than others. — igh (igo age 
ENOUGH PLANTS — from the same seed pods of every fone offered on the opposite ane 
side of this page, already have been flowered t> prove the basic quality of the crosses. Many 
i've flowered myself, and many others I've see. in flower at the Orchid Shows l've attended. ; 
SO YOU WOULD NOT BE BUYING unknown, unproven hybrids. 
UNBLOOMED SEEDLINGS of these same crosses — in the same size pot et currently 
being offered at from eight to eighteen dollars each. Any one of them in bloom would bring 
from fifteen to twenty dollars. pi: 5 see Vaal ane | ‘ 
EVERY SEEDLING OFFERED HAS A NEW LEAD. Every one of them should bloom on the ‘ | 
new lead. Certainly, you will have a plant that, when it blooms, will be worth fifteen or twenty | ene 
dollars. ier 
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= YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH to get an AWARD OF MERIT bloom, your plant will bring you 
many times these prices — IF you could be induced to part witheiteiy mute? A ae a . 
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HOW | WISH | COULD! In fact, I've often wished | could bloom EVERY seeding | own. When- 
ever | pack an unbloomed seedling for shipment, | think, "Maybe this will be the best one of the 
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onto them and bloom them yourself?" 
WHICH BRINGS THE NATURAL QUESTION: "If they are that good, why don't you. hang 
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ned to keep this particular group. | didn't mind the fact that there are too fey 
hybrid for general listing, because | didn't intend to list them. Shall | take down my 
ou why | changed my mind? |'ve been needing a major operation for quite sor 
this BARGAIN OF THE MONTH to do these three things: First pay for the ope 
make it unnecessary to get out a "bargain the following month. Third 
important — build up customer good will by sharing with YOU ‘these outst: 
WHEN THEY BLOOM FOR YOU, I'm sure they'll make you remember Da, 
time you plan to invest some more of your Orchid Budget money. 
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