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SPRING SPECIALS - Merch-April-Mey, 1954 Vi 1954 No. 1 
HYBRID ORCHID SFED & AGAR (Special # 1) 
Your opportunity to try seed flasking without investing a lot of money. Where else 
can you buy $25.00 worth of fresh, viable Orchid seed (five crosses, covering five 
different colors) plus the Orchid Agar for planting, plus the Calcium hypochlorite 
for sterilizing -- all for $15.00? 
The FIVE tee ican each ued labelled, will give you the ae eas 
They eke ce Limited to celts PTs. "Bo, oF Slot pXGueia with no botanicals or od- 
dities, but all top quality crosses. 
Sufficient dry Orchid Agar (same formula used for eur om flasks) for preparing the 
ten flasks will be included in this offer. (See Pages A & B for instructions) 
With even a modest degree of success, your $15.00 investment should result in at 
least $100.00 worth of Hybrid Orchid Seedlings in flasks in a few months 
NOTE: The enclosed Order Blank is for your convenience in ordering this, or any 
other of the 1954 SPRING SPECIALS. 
COMMUNITY -POT-LOTS "BARB ROOT" (Special # 2) 
If seed sowing sounds too difficult, or you feel two whole flasks of a cross will 
be too many seedlings of a kind, why not try planting a few community pots? 
In this special, you buy three community-pot-lots (20 or more bare root seedlings 
of each); plus the potting mix for planting them, for $10.003 
They fly to you by Air Mail Prepaid, in little cotton-lined jewel boxes. You will 
have skipped the first two stages, ie, sowing the seed, and transplanting from 
flask to flask, and gain approximately one year in growing time. 
Just follow instructions on Pages D-1l and T, 
The three crosses on this offering are as follows: 
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#762 Ce BICOLOR X Ceo LEDA - Yellows, bronzes and brilliant reds should appear 
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in this cross of heavy-textured cluster type, 4 to 6-inch blooms. Fall-Winter. 
NOTE: Use the enclosed Order Blank for this, or any other of the Spring Specials} 
SEEDLINGS IN INDIVIDUAL POTS (Special # 3) 
The following six hybrids in 1 3/4-inch or 2+inch pots are offered as a group, 
including White, White-Col.-Lip, Yellow, Colored Brasso, Colored Le and one 
novelty. NO broken lots, nor substitutions, the special price being for the well 
rounded seedling collection. ALL SIX - $9.00. 
#67 LC NEW YORK ALBA X Co LABIATA ALBA - Fall White-Colored-Lip. 
TS C. EMILY SHILL X C. LADY VEITCH X C. BOWBELLS - Quality White, Winter, 
Spring. 
#137 C. IkIS (Bicolor X Dowiana) - Autumn Yellow or green-yellow. 
#139 B. NODOSA X L. CRISPA - Fragrant novelty cluster. 
#675 C. REMY CHOLET X BC HARTLAND ~ Red-plum Brasso; twice yearly. 
#697 LC WESTWOOD X LC LUDGATE ~ Large, dark; Winter. 
NOTE: Use the enclosed Order Blank for this, or any other of the Spring Specials. 
