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BE NIN ES Ss ORC Hel Deen EWS 
PENNELD'S ORCHID NEWS 
From The Orchid Jungle 
Published By 
FENNELL ORCHID CO. 
Homestead, Florida 
CULTURAL HINTS 
Split Pots — It is not necessary to use 
“split’’ orchid pots when growing or- 
chids in the home. The reason we use 
them here at the “Orchid Jungle” is 
that the majority of our plants are 
grown outdoors and we like to use pots 
that will insure good drainage, and al- 
low the plants to dry out thoroughly 
between waterings, especially during 
rainy seasons. When orchids are grown 
in the home, watering is controlled and 
ordinary clay pots do just as well, pro- 
vided enough broken crock or lump 
charcoal is put in the bottom of the 
pot. 
Phalaenopsis leaves are quite tender to 
spot diseases caused by bacteria and 
fungi. The best preventative is to keep 
the leaves dry and to water by sub- 
irrigation. 
All Plant Food is difficult to dissolve 
in hard water. If you have trouble get- 
ting all of our Fenorco Plant Food to 
dissolve add two to four tablespoonsful 
of vinegar to the gallon of the water 
before you add the plant food. Stir well. 
Charcoal — We use lump charcoal as 
drainage and as part of all of our pot- 
ting mixtures. For Vandas and Phalae- 
nopsis we use lump charcoal almost ex- 
clusively. Of course, we feed all the 
plants with Fenorco Plant Food. 
Roots Outside the Pot are normal and 
not necessarily a sign that repotting 
is needed. An orchid plant will not get 
“pot bound’’. If you think your plants 
need repotting, read our repotting fold- 
er “How to Repot Your Orchids”. (Sent 
postpaid for 25c.) Unnecessary repot- 
ting is comparable to an unnecessary 
operation. Feeding helps the plant re- 
cover from repotting just as good food 
and good care is essential to a human 
when recuperating from an operation. 
BRILLIANT SPARKLING ORANGE — 
Flowers in graceful spikes are produced 
in quantity each spring by Dendrobium 
fimbriatum var. occulatum. 
This is one of the easiest grown, most 
satisfactory Dendrobiums. The old 
bulks produce flowers each spring for 
several years. It’s quite prolific and we 
can, therefore, sell it more cheaply than 
most rare orchids. 
Large plants, flowering size in 5” pots, 
4to 6 canes 12” to 15” tall....$15.00 ea. 
Very large plants in 5” & 6” pots, 8 to 
ieecanes, 12°. to 20e valleys $25.00 ea. 
Young plants in 3” pots, 1to 2 canes, 
(RS ray, eeaien oA ea eee ee 5 8 ne $5.00 ea. 
PHALAENOPSIS 
Make Good House Plants ! 
Their long and graceful sprays of beautiful white or pink flowers 
outlast most orchids and the plants are easily grown. They want tem- 
peratures between 60 and 100 and about 25% sunlight. 
The method is perfectly simple. You merely pot the plant in lump 
charcoal with just enough osmunda to enable you to keep the plant 
firmly in place. a 
You water and feed the plants by setting them in freshly made 
nutrient solution up to the bottom of the rim of the pot for about four 
hours every three to five days according to your growing conditions. 
After soaking the pot remove it to a saucer to drain. As long as you 
keep active root growth and firm leaves your plant Is getting enough 
water and food. If the leaves become limp but the roots are alive, in- 
crease frequency of watering. If roots die, repot plant and start again, 
There are many kinds of Phalaenopsis. ‘he most popular are the 
large flowered whites as their flowers last longer and the spikes can 
be made to reflower so that they can be made to bloom over a long 
period. 
PHALAENOPSIS DORIS—The best known and one of the finest of all 
the large flowered white Phalaenopsis. Each flower stem can be made 
to flower several times (by cutting the stem behind the last flower after 
the flowers have faded—instead of cutting the stem back at the base of 
the plant.) Some of these plants have faint stain of pink in center of 
flowers. 
No. 98 — Plants in 4” pots, leaves 6” to 8” across longest dimension 
$8.50 ea. 
No. 09 == 1 worplants “as above only 222 2 esas eee $15.00 
PHALAENOPSIS CHIEFTAIN—Very much like Phalaenopsis Doris but 
flowers always pure white and heavy textured. Probably the best large 
flowered white. 
No. 100 — Plants in 5” pots. 8-10” across longest dimension 
Floweringisize = 4st ch be ge ete ee Lene 
No. 101 — Larger plants in 6” pots, 12”-15” across longest diension 
$25.00 ea. 
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A FIND — Pine Young Cattleya Hybrids — Here is a group of very fine 
young plants just starting to flower,in 4,4% and5” pots. Not yet ful 
size but in sheath. Their first flowers will be smaller than normal 
as these varieties start flowering very young, but when the plants attain 
full size their flowers will be large. We have dark Le. and Ble. and 
pure white Cattleyas in this group at the low price-0ip == $15.00 each, 
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