ALL-BRITISH ORCHIDS
GROWN IN TEST-TUBES BRADFORD ENTERPRISE LONDON. April 6.—lt is hard to believe that Bradford, the unromantie heart of England’s wool industry? should have become during the past few years the centre for the muss production of orchids. Thousands or these costliest of flowers are success-fully-raised from seed, and it seems certain that the new undertaking, lias come‘to stay. Thei orchid seeds, collected from various tropical ’ countries', are germinated! in a nutrient‘medium in testtubes, arid/ after careful iricubation for a year, the young plants are transferred to "flasks. Not until tlie third year are they strong enough to he potted out. - .. Strangely enough, ho-plant'; seeds so preJineally as the. orchid, sprite -kinds producing well - oyer a • 'inillicit,'.■■microscopic seeds from each capsule. • Even science cannot get every one to grow, otherwise orchids' would soon be as comirion as, daisies. • . ..
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 184, 19 May 1939, Page 2
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139ALL-BRITISH ORCHIDS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 184, 19 May 1939, Page 2
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