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RYERSON AUGUST SPECIALS (1954) Page 5 
SEED + SEEDLINGS - MATURE PLANTS 
Once a year, we clear out the Mature Hybrids that have lost their identification tagse 
If we waited for the plants to bloom, a fairly accurate guess as to the names might 
be made = particularly, if another portion of the same plant happened to bloom at the 
same time, 
But a fairly accurate guess never satisfies an Orchid Hybridizer. So he'd rather make 
a "Grab Bag" special of those plants, giving folks who think "an Orchid by any other 
name would be as beautiful" a chance to adopt them for a very low investment. 
Some of you are so eager for a chance at this GRAB BAG each year that, if you didn't 
live so far away, I might almost suspect you of personally sabotaging them, iee.e, de- 
stroying the tags! But I don't think you could do it by remote control, so 1 can't 
place the blame there. 
Among the Grab Bags this year, I know there are colored hybrids, white hybrids and 
white=colored-lip hybrids - but I don't know which is which - so you "pays your money 
and you takes your chanceese.." 
AUGUST SPECIAL NUMBER FIVE - "GRAB BAG HYBRIDS" 
Many of them now IN SHEATH = One plantees.eoe$7e00 (Shipping charges prepaid in US.) 
Two plants.e.eeee$l2000 
Three or more "Grab Bag Hybrids" © $5.00 each (Shipping charges collect.) 
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AUGUST SPECIAL NUMBER SIX - "CHRISTMAS ORCHIDS" 
C. TRIANAE and C. PERCIVALIANA ere now beginning to make up sheaths for their Christmas 
blooms. Like many of the species, they form sheaths far in advance of blooming, and 
some are dried before the buds form in them, but this dogs not hurt them. 
Now is the time to buy your Christmas Gift Orchids, so they will have plenty of time 
to become acclimated before blooming. You also avoid shipping charges on the extra 
packing necessary when shipping them in cold weather, 
One plant of either Christmas species (your choice)sseee.$6.00 (Prepaid in U.S.) 
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Three plants (assorted, your QHSTGG) . sapuresd cose eeu sesy LoeO0 
Five or more plants (assorted, your choice) @ $3.00 each (charges collect.) 
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ALL AUGUST SPECIAL offers end September lst, 1954. Or even before 
that, if items listed were all sold. Orders bearing earliest postmark 
are first filled and least apt to find stocks exhausted. 
