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Last month, while attending an orchid meeting, I was fortunate to win a raffle prize of fancy note cards depicting cattleyas in old time jungle scenes. The images were familiar as they are regularly ...

While attending an orchid meeting last month, I was fortunate to win a raffle prize of fancy notecards depicting cattleyas in old-time jungle scenes. The images were familiar as they are regularly ...

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