Start Now To 
Grow Your Own Orchids 
You Need only a sunny window and 20 minutes a week 
GROW YOUR 
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192—STARTER COLLECTION— 
6. EQUIPMENT. The 
Five, fine, flowering size plants including 2 Cattleya triar ae_ (winter) 1 Cattleya _Gas plants can easily be grown in 
ORCH | DS TH is kelliana (Spring), 1 Laelia anceps (Fall), and 1 Dendrobium Phalaenopsis (Fall plus ] : = : 
pound of Fenorco Plant Food. A $39.00 Value any room with sufficient light 
SIMPLE WAY Cost with transportation prepaid east of Rocky Mountain States (in U $28.50 ith 1 < ] 
i iS West $31.50 with only very simple equip- 
Coast 
The requirements of 
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ment. Get a large shallow 
pan or dish—a glass or alu- 
° i d Five plants in Firrest .\nybrids 2 large tiowering size, corsage type Caftleyas in 5 
Orchids are few and are pots in sheath and 3 smaller plants in pots, each plant 6 to 8” tall, should flower minum cake pan is fine. Fill 
* * next year One of the smaller plants is a pure white hybrid A $50.00 value i 
easily met in the average Gost with transportation paid east of ‘Rocky Mountamestates $37.50 the pan with gravel to the 
home. They are: U. S. West Coast and Rocky Mountain States $40.00 top and with water to 
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- 
FENNELL ORCHID COMPANY, 
member, let them dry out between watering. 
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. 
HOMESTEAD, 
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 3.) 
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 one 
of the same size. and firmly press the plant and 
osmunda fiber into it. 
FLORIDA 
