Orchid Pioneer Rapee Sagarik Sparks Thailand's Flower Revolution
AP reports from Bangkok on Professor Rapee Sagarik of Kasetsart University who popularized orchid growing among Thai villagers, boosting exports to Europe Japan and the United States. His work supported rural development, raising growers' wages and cutting prices, while creating the cattleya sagarik wax.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Rapee Sagarik
Rapee
Kasetsart University
Kriangsak Chomanan
Europe
Japan
U.S
United States
Hawaii
International Orchid Registration Society
London
Winter storage tips for trailing geraniums and pumpkins
Winter care for trailing geraniums advises cellar storage rather than indoor reblooming. Keep soil barely moist in low light, water weekly if basement is dry, trim scraggly stems, and refresh topsoil in spring. Also notes on pumpkins and squash storage at 60 F, cross-pollination caveats, basil and garlic winter cycles, and cautions about houseplant toxicity from common ornamentals.
Milkweed and Garden Notes Highlight Local Horticulture
The author notes an abundant milkweed seed crop with Asclepias syriaca and Butterfly Weed A tuberosa, discusses uses from WWII to dye and pharmacology, and mentions bird nest spruce, Stewartia issues, and an award to Henry A. Ross of Gardenview Horticultural Park. It also covers chestnut blight research and wintering hardy chrysanthemums.
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Asclepias
North America
Pearl Harbor
Ohio
Catawba Island
Philadelphia
Holland
Stacy
Wyman
Stewart
Stewartia
Massachusetts Horticulture Society
Henry A. Ross
Strongsville
Ross
Gardenview Horticultural Park
Route 42
Gardenview
Ohio State University
West Virginia University
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
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U.S. Dept. of Interior
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Cambridge
D.F
Eaton
Caladium
Philodendron
Monstera
George Abraham
Bird Nest Spruce
Otto Schoepfle
de Paquin
Organization
Pakistan
Inca
Evening TV
Faunus
Eleonora
Mara Berlin
Arabian Gulf
Stegis
John Or
Margur
California
Star Mountain
Miss Chase
Bonn
SPE
Cleveland
Midway Mall
Fazios
Christy
Holiday Inn
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