Orchid Nursery

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

670

Date Released

26 Oct 1967

Date recorded

19 Sep 1967

Length of issue (in feet)

784

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Glass Painting
2. 2Orchid Nursery
3. 3Gpo Riggers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: ... an orchid must be a painter’s dream. And at Haywards Heath, Sussex, they grow them by the thousand. Forget the fallacies. Orchids are no more difficult to grow than chrysanthemums, but seed sowing is a specialist method of propogation calling for an orchid "doctor" and strict sterilisation precautions. There’s no need to climb tropical mountains to find these beauties ...

Keywords

Horticulture

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

202

Story extras:

Film clip

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