[Grennios]

The greenhouses where I work was previously a reasonably popular site for orchid flowers developed for corsages. It had been the initial Baker Greenhouses in Utica NY, and in-the 50's Mr. Baker employed a Joseph Filipkowski from Nj. Joe worked because the Head Orchid Grower, creating I really believe Cattleya mossiae, Phal and Cymbidium cross (perhaps all species) blooms to be offered primarily in the Nyc and surrounding regions (including upstate nyc) at times of the entire year to be properly used in conventional orchid corsages. It had been an extremely intense, hands-on work controlling the environment so the orchid flowers were in blossom for your vacation. In those days there have been no computers heat and controlling the ports, only many individuals who worked their place and virtually nothing else. Bakers was known for it's high-quality orchid flowers, and Joe was liable for that quality. I caused Joe from 1998 to about 2005 when he was kind of forced in to retirement. He used to climb the wall to visit work, and lived right nearby to the greenhouse amounts! One morning they presented him with a ladder to review the fence and fundamentally they just slice the fence down so he might go through. Joe would tell me all about his orchid developing years (they also created long-stem rose flowers) and how they used to go about doing everything; when I'd question him about being a at our orchid membership he'd often say that he actually didn't have something he could present (which was really interesting because he could speak for hours and hours) therefore I never had that much actual data that I could jot down, but it was a colourful history likewise. I did have one picture he discovered that confirmed him as a much younger man in the centre of the greenhouse full of cattleya mossiae flowers, but I've no notion where that picture is, now. Joe died quietly together with his family present last week-end and the solutions were recently (thursday), unfortuitously exactly the same time I was having surgery; Joe was 81 years old. The times of orchids being developed for corsages in-the U.S. are gone, and few people know about how they used to be packed, developed and delivered round the state, but at the least you all may know that there is one individual who used to achieve this, and do-it perfectly! If anybody is interested I've a bit more details about Joe and where contributions might be designed to an area hospital. ...and no, I am sorry, there have been not any paphs or phrags employed for corsages in those days!