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Railroad Engineer Spends Spare Time Raising Orchids
Ed F Zimmerman, a Santa Fe Railway engineer in Amarillo, tends a home orchid greenhouse at his back yard. He joined the American Orchid Society, installs automatic climate controls, and hopes to expand to 200 plants while his wife helps care for their daughter Janet Kay.
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Missouri Botanical Society
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American Orchid Society
Mr. Zimmerman
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