Let Mother Wear and the Family Enjoy 
ORCHIDS on EASTER, MOTHER'S vay 
Our Living Plants — Bear Orchids for Weeks and Months! 
Holmes Ships Postpaid Anywhere in Florida — Order Today. 
“Rainbow” EPIDENDRUM Orchids 
Every color but blue! Blooms a dozen dainty brilliant 
orchids at a time on long graceful stems — followed by 
dozen after dozen for six months at a stretch! One plant 
is an almost perpetual orchid garden — guaranteed to 
bloom for you, too! Could any gift be more delightful, 
more enduringly endearing! And for Easter and Mother’s 
Day we’ve sorted out only blooming size plants at prices 
you won’t believe. The Jarger size gives twice the blooms. 
Just two short years ago, before Holmes did it, these 
same size plants sold for $5 to $15! Don’t wait — 
they’ll sell fast. Order by mail today, or rush out to 
nursery. 
Blooming Size, $ 1 .40 
Rowse. 40, postpale ce 
te $5-00 10 for $1Q-00 
Large, Blooming Size, $2.40 
Reg. $3.40; pestpalé 
ape $19-00 10 for $1g-00 
CATTLEYA “Corsage” Orchids 
Just exactly what the florist sends when hubby orders 
for that extra special occasion! Purples, white, lavenders, 
usually 5 to 6 in. big! Often 2 or more per plant, and 
stays on for days and days. Order now, pick one for the 
Easter Parade, another for Mother’s Day! And still 
have another shower of orchids when plant blooms again! 
Yow in sheath and bud, ready to bloom in your living 
room. (Thousands more at Nursery!) SALE PRICED 
$7.40, $9.90, $12.40 UP 
Postpald 
VANDA TATZERI — Exotic Foliage, too! 
Combines huge fan shaped foliage on single stems, from 
which bouquets of orchids emerge. Rated one of freest 
flowering of all large orchids, its massive blooms carry- 
ing 12 to 15 huge 4 to 5 In. orchids at a time. Richest 
rose-mahogany, tropical markings. Pick an orchid corsage 
a day, for weeks and weeks. Large choice plants, special 
for this sale, to bloom within a year. Postpaid or 
at Nursery $9-90 
$12.50 SIZE — Special_...____- 
SENSATION! Michael Kirch Orchid 
1954’s most magnificent Easter or Mother’s Day gift! 
Imagine! Largest of all Dendrobiums with huge 2-foot 
tlower spikes, tiered with 3 to 5 in. ovate glossy leaves, 
crowned with 10 to 20 jungle-marked yellow-rose-ma- 
hogany orchids. This sensational group includes 3, 5 and 
7 spike plants—promising from 30 to 60 orchids In the 
3 spike, 70 to 150 in the 7 spike, during April and 
May. Give Mother, or the family, fresh Orchids every 
day with one of these plants. Grow outdoors, in patio, 
in gardens; they are rugged, prolific. No other gift will 
be as breath-taking, exciting! At our Nursery, or by 
mail, postpaid in Florida. 
REG. $30.00 SIZE — Special this ad only... 
$14.90, $4 7-40, $49.90 
NUN Patio Orchid — Huge 
Plant in tubs in your patio for hundreds of exotic, lush 
white and chocolate orchids topping each plant {ike a 
cloud. Virtually foolproof, everlasting. Flowering size. 
$7-40, $9.90, $4 2.40 UP 
Smaller to bloom next year. = $1-98 
CHIGNON Chain Orchid 
Flowers in chains of six to a dozen and a half, snow- 
white 3'%2 to 5 in. orchids. Pick a spray and fit it 
to your hair — a ravishing chignon you’!! wear again 
and again. Flowering now, will continue through May. 
$9-90 *”” $4 4.40 "strav 
THOUSANDS MORE ORCHIDS IN BLOOM AT HOLMES NURSERY NOW! 
See Florida’s biggest display of Orchids! Not a “sideshow” or picnic grove — no animals, no birds, 
no hot-dogs! Just a serenely beautiful professional Orchid nursery where it’s always OPEN HOUSE 
for you! Four big greenhouses, 2 sales salons, 2 big patios, and trees full of orchids — all sizes, 
all shapes, all colors, ALL ORCHIDS! Five times as many plants as last year! Hundreds of young 
Orchid plants from $1.40 up — all varieties. Come out and thrill to this Orchid fairyland. 
HOLMES ORCHID NURSERIES 
One-Half Mile South of Apex, U. S. 41 
18261 N. Nebreska Avenue 
P. O. Box 417 
‘Where Orchids Fell in Love with Florida’ 
Tampa 1, Florida 
Only Holmes Offers Orchids Like These 
“The Dancing Girl Orchid” 
$3-40 up 
Oncidiums are the gayest of all Orchids, and prove it with their abundant blooming 
and bright buttery yellow colors! Nick-named “dancing girls,” they look the part— 
slim-waisted, with huge billowing skirts anc multi-colored covering for their arms and 
heads. One of the most interesting and fascinating of all Orchids. Include them when 
you buy! 
ONCIDIUM Cebolleta. Flowers from February to April. Orchids are 1 to 2 inches in 
size, borne on 2-ft. spikes. Lasts long, easy sure growing. Blooming size $4-40 up. 
ONCIDIUM Variable. Multi-colored; rust-orange, purplish mauve, chestnut browns. 
Springablooming==Bloamip@xsize2 2 Se. $5-40, $'7-40 up. 
ONCIDIUM Lanceanum. Produce sensation scented large flowers on long tall spikes. 
The flowers are very interesting and are rich rose and dark brown. The large grotesque 
leaves are extremely interesting being highly spotted and the roots produced in thick 
masses add still another interesting touch. We find them ideal for trees, slab mountings 
and baskets. They do quite well in almost full sun. Good strong plants, 3, 4 and 5 years 
old. Some will bloom in 1 and 2 years. Choice sizes sooner. 
Small SIZES oe a a I te a ol $1 -90, $2.40 
Mediumesizes strong plants________! .— __| $2.90, $3-40, $3.90 up. 
Ghoice-sizessstrongiplants 2.2. ee $6-40 to $G.90 up. 
ONCIDIUM Sphacelatum. Our most prolitic variety. Sometimes one specimen with 
two to ten spikes produces several hundred blooms in a season. Grows equally well in 
half sun. We’ve priced this variety especially low. Be sure to try it. 
ye ON eT PS 5 ee ee ee 2 5 eee $3-90 to $4.90 
LOrgeyOlants sere ee $7-40, $9.90, $4 4.90 up. 
CHYSIS BRACTESCENS 
The truly tropical-looking Orchid! Its heavy-textured white blooms are fragrant, range 
2 to 4 in. in size. Everything you could want in any Orchid. But Chysis gives you more 
—grows huge pseudobulbs from its base—spindle shaped and about one foot long. 
Nothing is more interesting in baskets, on trees or mountings. 
ONLY HOLMES OFFERS ORCHIDS LIKE THESE! 
Amaze your Garden with HOLMES Astounding New 
FLYING BIRD OF PARADISE 
@ Does Not “Nest” in Foliage! 
@ Flowers High Above Plant! 
Now, with the advent of Holmes FLYING BIRD OF 
PARADISE, this exotically brilliant flower is the most 
gorgeous living outdoor bouquet you’ve ever seen! 
For the first time, its Glittering Blue and Flaming 
Orange blooms “fly’’ high above its foliage for all 
to see and enjoy — instead of “nesting” down in the 
plant like most former kinds. Yes, literally “fly” — 
beckoning, soaring, swinging on longest, tallest stems 
ever seen! 
And not just one or two huge blooms — each one 
larger than your hand! — but up to a dozen and 
more on mature plants. Imagine the beauty, the 
thrill, every time you glimpse it. 
This rare treat can be yours only at Holmes Nursery. 
Holmes found this rare new tall-stemmed ‘flying’ 
variety in just one place in Hawaii last year—bought 
up all available young plants, seeds. 
This new FLYING BIRD OF PARADISE thrives in our 
nursery gardens. Will bloom from April ‘til end of 
January. Think of it! Blooms to dominate all your 
bouquets — blooms that last a month. Special intro- 
ductory prices: 
Husky, strong, well rooted plants 
4-in. pots; size:2. years 
Collected by Holmes in Hawaii $3-00 
. .. Never Before Sold in Florida ce ER OEE See Se ae ce 
Only a few hundred ready now! Bare root plants, 5 year $7-40 
Post Paid in Florida 
Now! Right from Prize Winning Beds to You! 
Match 1954’s Newest $1.00 to $2.50 Varieties . . 
Holmes Exclusive Royal Daylilies 
100 startling new giant and dwarf varieties! All first 
time ever offered for sale. All new, improved bigger 
flowering fuller blooms, with broader petals, fancier 
shapes, and a whole new range of clearer, brighter, 
richer colors. 
10,000 plants direct from the famous Wheeler breed- 
ing plots, they’re companion plants to 16 of 1954's 
prize-winning named varieties selling at $2.50, $5.00 
and more. We’ll guarantee only a super-expert day- 
lily fancier could tell the difference! 
. Low as 29¢ 
See them in bloom at our nursery now. (Or better 
yet, order by mail today, have them blooming in 
your garden!) You‘ll want dozens. They make old 
varieties (1953, 1952, 1951) look spindly, puny. All 
superb plants — tended, weeded, sprayed, cultivated, 
fertilized, full time, six days a week by one of our 
nurserymen. None labeled or sold by calor, but guar- 
anteed to please. In three selected groups mixed 
Super Choice, 
Blooming = $5-00 each colors all Postpaid in Florida: 
Will be sold in bloom, at our Nur- Group Each Per 10 hed i! 
sery only. Unnamed — you can . : as as apes 
name one after yourself! c 1.00 7.99 59.00 
HOLMES ORCHID NURSERIES 
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One-Half Mile South of Apex, U. S. 41 
18261 N. Nebraska Avenue P. O. Box 417 Tampa 1, Florida 
“Where Orchids Fell in Love with Florida” 
