European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Bab17 new Yorks Flower show Worth to you if you can grow of in Wmma by Walter Sis new York Bureau several Steps ahead of Springs lint the International Flower show skipped into new bringing with t uncounted hundreds of of blooms id cheer Winter weary As usual at the Floral there want a single while Marigold in the it int hint Simenoe keep forgetting to hip a Flat or two of White la the or thai they somehow get Bung up in Cro Splown it simply that the Marigold for decade the object of a search not a yet but the nations norms in and need grow a patient lot to be Hope that one of these Scon they will have arrows while Banks of marigolds to Lake their place among the Doe and even 80foot tall annually bedeck the seed companies have tone Beta maxims to produce Ibe elusive while and thousands of Home dts mrs Are new giving them a tree thumbed the amateurs interest has been under stimulated by an offer of 000 to the first Gardener who spots a pure White Marigold uni Cluj his Flower City dwellers arc hopefully Undine Flower pots and win Dow a Ninny fire a Coffee can full of the right teed and a bit of Loving care could be the Road to Jerry Haver of the Atlee dunce which hag a major exhibit at Burpee made the offer because it Felt the average Home Gar Dener has about As Good a Chance of ruined Horl Cut Billing it Lucky As a it int a question or simply Breeding and he if it were we could handle it Ili really a matter of and the was offered la get Home gardeners to help us what they Are actually be urchins for is a extremely rare variation caused in a single Plant by a change within the those godlike cell parts which Dic Tate hereditary surrounding Haver As he were Banks of show Quality their five Inch blossoms rang ing from a Pale Primrose through Sev eral shades of cheery and finally to a Bright one variety called is a a mutation would be Likely in the really Pale said adding that each year As Many As 900 Home gardeners mall in seeds from flow ers they Hope Are while so no seed has produced pure White blooms of Twain Duhali the minimum size acceptable for the prize sometimes people find an isolated while Marigold and feel they will but it usually turns out to be a defective rather than a True often a combination of unsuitable soil and poor weather conditions can produce a washed out said when we Plant seeds from such flow they revert to the company wants to Market a while he not Only because la would be in demand by florists and but because ii would be a stepping Stone to other while is a base Tram which we can where you have a while Flower of any Haver you usually have a Large color if we can find a White there would be a real Opportunity to develop new such As red and but that will probably nut be possible until eight or 10 years after we can locate a pure while in the Well just keep typical example of Horti cultural patience was the Eastman Kodak photo a photographers Paradise set up with live Brilliant geraniums and Spring blossoms blending into a Woodland it actually took Over 2d years to de since it featured the Dawn red b tree which had been known prior to ims Only As Fossil remain Many millions of years several Dawn redwoods were discovered growing in China just after world War and it has taken seed from them ail this time to grow into Trees big enough to Stanley landscaper of the sex was complimented on it by Madame Chiang the first lady of nationalist who toured the shows 46 Ormul gardens and Floral displays with put this years the nonprofit sponsored jointly by the horticultural society of new York and the new York florists also Drew Praise from americas first lady when she Learned of lit keeps America Beauty lady Bird an avid campaigner in the fight to Spruce up the wrote that she wag de lighted to hear the show was featuring practical opportunities for beaut Letca Uon of those spots that need it the roadsides and backyards of Amer for the first a full landscaped swimming Pool was included among the exhibit but water for it had Lobo trucked in from out of tie Pool looked particularly inviting to water Short new yorkers who Are not permitted to Wash their and whose lawns have Long since died of for Many of the Flower show might be the last they will see of real Crosb this but that could be the least of imagine he plight of a metropolitan Gardener who discovers Hes got a White Marigold growing in bit window die City wont Lei him water it Iota found Marilyn gon Wilh photo Garden Al the into National Flower show look 20 own to March Staw and it Riff 11
