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NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE 
PUREST WHITE LARGE ORCHID COLOR 
DENDROBIUM SPRAY CATTLEYA HYBRIDS 
Blooming sizG seme = $15.00 Often blooming several times 
CATTLEYA SPECIES 
Large orchid color corsage type 
yearly. Blooming size plants 
$15.00—25.00—35,00 
blooms. Blooming size plants 
(Seeainside) me aeeaer gene $8.98 
PURE WHITE 
BILLBERGIA CATTLEYA HYBRID 
PYRAMIDALIS Bloom several times a_ year. 
Blooming size____ olin 1% $25.00 
Not an orchid but a Bromeliad. 
Very showy, extremely easy to 
grow. Urn shaped plant, upright 
cluster of flowers, scarlet petals 
with blue tinge. Grows well out- 
side in warm climates, in a pot 
in the house in cold climate. 
Blooming cizee. $2.00 
GROW YOUR ORCHIDS 
THIS SIMPLE WAY 
LAVENDER-BLUE 
VANDA 
MARGARET FENNELL 
Blooms several times a year. 
Plants $6.50—8.50—10.00—12.50. 
Blooming size_.$17.50 to $25.00 
When in Florida visit the Orchid Jungle where this photograph 
The 
Orchids are few and are 
requirements of 
easily met in the average 
home. They are: 
1. PLENTY OF SUNLIGHT. A south or 
east window, unshaded from November until 
March, lightly shaded from 9:30 to 3:30, with 
a thin gauze-like curtain the rest of the year. 
(If the plants can be placed out in the yard 
under light shade during the months when no 
frost occurs so much the better.) 
2.. SUFFICIENT WARMTH. The usual 
house temperature of 60-70 degrees at night 
and 65-85 degrees in the day is fine. No dam- 
age is done by occasional drops by the thermo- 
meter even into the thirties if only for short 
periods. 
38. FOOD. If you want flowers year after 
year and strong husky growth feed your plants 
with a solution of one teaspoonful Fenorco 
Plant Food to the gallon of tepid water. Feed 
weekly. 
4. WATER. Water plants heavily only once 
per week—lightly once or twice weekly. Re- 
member, let them dry out between watering. 
FENNELL ORCHID COMPANY, HOMESTEAD, 
was taken. 
Only 25 miles south of Miami. 
Water with tepid water by pouring water 
over the plant—always water during the morn- 
ing—the water will run directly through the 
pot. A plant in a 5” pot should have, for a 
heavy watering, approximately one-half gallon 
of water poured through it. It is best, when 
watering, to take the plants to the kitchen sink 
or a laundry tub and to do the watering there. 
The gravel pan (Cake Pan) mentioned in para- 
graph 6 is used only to prevent dripping and to 
keep the plants from drying out too quickly. 
It is not a means of watering. 
5. CLEANLINESS. The easiest way to keep 
a few plants healthy and clean is to wipe them 
down weekly with a wet cloth or sponge and a 
mild soap such as Ivory. During this process 
remove the papery sheaths from old growth. 
If you leave a little suds on the plants it won’t 
hurt them. 
Follow signs on 
U.S. No. 1. A crushed coral trail winds through a natural Florida 
jungle between great oak trees where at all times orchids from all 
over the world bloom in abundance. Every day every lady gets 
an orchid. 
6. EQUIPMENT. The 
plants can easily be grown in 
any room with sufficient light 
with only very simple equip- 
ment. Get a large shallow 
pan or dish a glass or aluminum cake pan 
is fine. Fill the pan with gravel to the top 
and with water to about 2/3 the depth of the 
gravel, place the pan on the window sill or 
over the radiator in front of the window and 
place the orchid pot on the top of the gravel. 
Keep the water level as constant as possible, 
but always below the bottom of the orchid pot. 
(See illustration on page 8.) 
This pan of wet gravel keeps the plant from 
drying too fast, provides sufficient humidity for 
the plant, prevents excess water from staining 
the floor and window sill (and incidentally 
helps provide more pleasant living conditions 
in the room for you by adding some needed 
humidity.) 
7. REPOTTING. All our plants come to 
you in pots. They will not need repotting for 
about two or three years. 
If, by accident, a pot is broken, obtain on< 
of the same size and firmly press the plant and 
osmunda fiber into it. ; : 
FLORIDA 
