ee TWIN BROOK COMPANY was started in 1939 as a hobby. 
Due to the complications of the income tax laws, it subsequently 
seemed wise to incorporate, and the Corporation is now owned by a 
Trust for the benefit of the former owner’s grandchildren, although 
he still controls its destinies. 
We believe that Cymbidiums are the most rewarding of orchids, 
and we get the greatest pleasure through the production of magnificent 
flowers. 
Over the fifteen years this Corporation has been in business, we 
have bought many hundreds of plants and seedlings, and have discarded 
most of them. Seedlings are an expensive gamble; the opinions of 
others are gamble enough. 
Mr. William Mansell of the famous English firm of Mansell and 
Hatcher, acted as our agent from 1941 to 1944, buying what he thought 
were the top crosses in England. His judgment was outstanding, but 
in many cases, even he was wrong. He bought us about 100 Chiron 
crosses. Herewith we offer only four as being really good. 
Mr. McBean shipped us Pearl crosses, over 100 of them. Here- 
with, we offer one. 
We have culled our stock again and again, and resolved that we 
will not enlarge our glass area, but will discard everything we can 
that does not come up to our standard of perfection. 
You may not agree with our ideas of a perfect Cymbidium, but 
we at least, are not trying to sell you something we consider inferior. 
We gladly junk that stuff to give us room. 
After fifteen years of Cymbidiums, our judgment must have reached 
a certain state of perfection. Many award winners, we do not think 
worthy; many of our own unawarded plants, we think magnificent. 
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