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SEED - SEEDLINGS - warure Plants | * YUL 26; i954 | | 
At what stage are YOU as an Orchidist? a  Aaticulture | 
If you never have flasked Orchid seed, and have no intention of attempting that 
fascinating, but relatively slow, way to acquire a fine Orchid Collection, you-may 
skip right on past this SPECIAL NUMBER ONE. 
Next you will find COMMUNITY-POT-LOTS of "Bare Root" seedlings. If you order them, 
they will be flown to you, Air Mail Prepaid, making it easy for you to plant your 
own Community Pots and save. Still too small for you? Too far from blooming? 
BARE ROOT SHEDLINGS READY FOR INDIVIDUAL POTS may be your preference. See Special 
Number Three. 
Or, how about "teen-agers", 25 to 3 years from blooming size? SPECIAL NUMBER FOUR. 
Want nothing but MATURE PLANTS that will bloom THIS year? STUDY NUMBERS FIVE AND 
Six. 
In other words, my onceea-year AUGUST SPECIALS are designed to appeal to everyone 
on my mailing list. Everyone I can find at home, that is. If August is a vaca- 
tion month for you, lucky you, even if it does mean you are missing out on some 
wonderful Orchid BUYS3 
AUGUST SPECIAL NUMBER ONE 
(Hybrid Orchid Seed and the Media for Planting) 
FIVE PACKETS OF FRESH, VIABLE HYBRID ORCHID SEED 
2flask pkt. #819 C. BLEANORE ALBA X LC ETHEL MERMAN - hite-Col.-Lip for June. 
2-flask pkt. #822 C. BEN NEVIS X C. OENONE ALBA - Pure White for May-June. 
2-flask pkt. #823 BLC MARION RYERSON X C. HARDYANA VAR RUBY - Dark red-purple. 
Twice yearly, Winter and early Summer. 
2-flask pkt. #824 BLC CONSUSLO JEWELL X (©. BICOLOR - Heavy textured Yellow to 
Bronze; purple lip. Autumn. 
2-flask pkt. #818 C. GRANULOSA X C. HAROLD X C. FORBESII AURBA - Bi-foliate 
; novelty; heavy green-yellow clusters, Fall and Spring. 
ORCHID MEDIA for preparing the ten flasks accompanies the above. (See Pages A & B) 
Packet of fresh Calcium Hypochlorite for sterilizing seed is attached to media pkt. 
With even modest success, in a year or less you should have $100.00 worth of seed= 
lings ready for community pots. In two years you should have at least $1,000.00 
worth of seedlings ready for individual pots. How's thet for watching your Orchids 
grow into money? 
PRICE OF AUGUST SPECIAL NUMBER ONE, COMPLETE, 
$15.00 
