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Published Quarterly by PENNELL ORCHID C0. 
Orchid Importers, Growers and Hybridists For Over 50 Yea? 
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20h Homestead, 
VOL. 7 
SPRING-SUMMER — 1953 
A Giant 
Among Us 
Our Strongest 
Growing Cattleya 
Hybrid 
The largest, strong- 
est growing Cattleya 
hybrid we have ever 
seen is Le. Black Hawk 
x Be. Apollo, This 
plant produces high 
quality dark flowers 
and is the strongest growing of 
all the cattleyas we’ve grown. 
Plants are 2 ft. to 2% ft. tall and 
flowering size specimens take 6” 
to 8” pots. The plants are beau- 
tifully robust and one of our cus- 
tomers recently remarked that 
they are the only really beautiful 
and decorative cattleya plants 
she has seen—even when not in 
flower!! 
Their leaves and bulbs are 
dark green in color and the leaves 
are wide, heavy and gracefully 
held. Flowers are large, dark and 
heavy texture, large frilly lip. 
If you want a real heavy 
weight among cattleyas get one 
of these. 
No. 95 — Strong plants in 6” pots 
one lead in sheath ........ $22.50 ea. 
No. 96 — Larger plants in 6”-7” 
pots, 1 lead in sheath.._.$27.50 ea. 
No. 97—Our largest and strongest 
plants in 7” and 8” pots, two and 
threesleadSies cae $37.50 ea. 
FENNELL ORCHID COMPANY, 
Our prize winning display which won the A.O.S. trophy 
for the “Most Meritorious Exhibit” in the Miami Interna- 
tional Orchid Show, February 1953. 
ORCHID SHOWS 
The ORCHID JUNGLE is, we believe, 
the largest orchid show in the world. 
We cover more area, we show more 
kinds of Orchids and to more paying 
customers than any other exhibit limit- 
ed exclusively to orchids. 
But in addition to the maintenance 
of a large year round Orchid Show we 
also show in two Florida Orchid Shows 
—those in St. Petersburg and Miami. 
This year our record in these shows 
was— 
St. PETERSBURG 
American Orchid Society Silver Med- 
al for the Most Meritorious Exhibit in 
the entire show. 
MIAMI 1953 
First Place — 200 sq. ft. class. 
American Orchid Society silver 
Award platter for the Most Meritorious 
Exhibit in the entire show. 
Special Award — Best Cattleya Spec- 
imen in the entire show. 
First and Second Places — Best 3 
plants Cattleya Species, All same vari- 
ety (C. trianae Mary Fennell and C. 
trianae Jungle Queen). 
First Place — Best colored Phalae- 
nopsis Plant (Phal. Reve Rose). 
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Dendrobiums 
Easily Grown 
Many Kinds 
Many Colors 
This is probably the 
largest of all the or- 
chid genera. Over 850 
species of this genus 
are found scattered in 
the Orient. 
As is natural in so 
large a genus a very wide range 
of variation in floral and vege- 
tative parts occurs. Some plants 
and flowers are very small while 
other plants are very large with 
long many flowered sprays of 
medium size flowers. 
Some flowers last only a few 
hours while others remain in 
good condition for months. Al- 
most every color is found in the 
flowers except a really good blue 
or bright red. 
For most practical purposes 
the Dendrobiums can be divided 
into four general groups — 
1. The Deciduous types that 
must lose their leaves before 
flowering, such as D. Noubile, 
D. Wardianum, D. Pierardii and 
D. Superbum. 
2. The Evergreen types, such 
as D. Thyrsiflorum, D. Densiflor- 
um, D. Aggregatum, etc., whose 
leaves last several years. 
3. The Cane types such as D. 
Phalaenopsis, D. Superbiens, D. 
Taurinum, D. Undulatum, ete. 
4. The White-flowered group 
to which D. Formosum, D. San- 
derae, D. Infundibulum, etc., be- 
long. The stems of most of these 
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HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA 
