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Gary Olson, executive director of Flower Growers, and Tom Murphy,
president of Flower Growers, arrange displays of flowers for the two-day
course.
Floral Expo Stresses Need For Unified Voice
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Participants at the
fourth annual Pennsylvania Floral Short Course and Expo,
held in Lancaster last week, grappled with the need to pre
sent a unified voice for research money on the university
level.
“Without money for research, educators are giving up a
sizable part of the economy to an unknown entity,” Ralph
Null, from the University of Mississipi, told growers.
About 360 persons registered for the two-day course
that included sessions on design, costs, growth regulators,
insect and weed control, water and nutrient management,
government management, and worker protection.
The expo included a Trade Fair for growers to keep up
to date on what’s new in the market.
In one of the sessions, Peter Konjoian, a former profes
sor and now full-time in the family greenhouse business,
spoke of the need for small family businesses to continue
to provide the back bone of the floral industry.
“Sure the big boys get a lot of attention,” he said. “But
you can be small and successful."
In his own case, Konjoian said that he has chosen to
remain small even though it goes against the grain to
remain small among American thinking.
Konjoian shared his passion for growing “not as a job
but as a way of life.”
Retailing, he said, is always changing. “Some say you
must specialize,” he said. “Our specialty is quality so we
grow everything.”
Konjoian said the concept of self service in bedding
plants continues, but scheduling is everything to have a
continual supply of plants in different stages.
He advised growers to leant a lesson from grocery
stores and put the plants they sell the most in the back of
the store so that customers are enticed to buy other plants
while going to pick up the items they came to buy.
nil HAPPENINGS
4-H Exchange
Adams County 4-H teens and adults are involved in an
international cultural exchange experience with youth and
adults from Monterrey, Mexico.
Four youth and one adult are visiting from Mexico with
4-H host families in Adams County for two weeks. This
international experience is to acquaint youth from both
countries with the similarities and differences between
cultures. The teens and adult from Monterrey are in host
families to live, work, and leam about Adams County and
the United Slates during their visit.
The visitors will tour Utz Potato Chip, Round Hill
Foods, Inc., Adams County Courthouse, Oyler’s Fruit
Farm, The National Apple Museum, Larry and Doris
Wilkinson’s Dairy Farm, The Land of Little Horses,
WGET, and play miniature golf. In addition, they will
spend time with their host families doing whatever the
family has scheduled.
Adams County hosts are Brandy Carey, York Springs;
Michelle Brown, Gettysburg; Angie Huss, McSherrys
town; Erica Young, Gettysburg: and Janet Ludwig, York
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The Trade Fair included products to be marketed in greenhouses such
as these dried oranges, apples, squashes, mushrooms, lotus leaves,
and pepper berries displayed by John W. Cox Inc., wholesale brokers for
A Knud Nielsen Products.
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SQUARE BALES OR ROUND,
YOU’RE IN THE BEST SHAPE
WITH JOHN DEERE
■ Look over the complete and completely
advanced baler line.
■ See the 435 and 535 Round Balers that can both
surface wrap and twine-tie.
■ See square balers with the hay control to produce
bales that stack like bricks.
■ Four round baler models, 750- to 2000-pound bales.
Three 14xl8-mch square balers, one 16xl8-mch
square baler
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EVERGREEN
TRACTOR CO, INC.
Labanon, PA
717-272-4641
A.B.C. GROFF, INC,
Naw Holland, PA
717-354-4131
GUTSHALL’S INC.
RD 32 Box 74-A
Loyovllla, PA
GUTSHALL’S INC.
Cartlsla, PA
717-243-2313
LG. SALES
Silvardala, PA
215-257-5136
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KERMIT K.
KISTLER INC.
Lynnporl, PA
215-2 M-2011
LANDIS BROS. II
Lancaster, PA
717-291-1046
LEHIGH AG
EQUIPMENT
Wsseoavilla, Pi
215-398-2553