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A*?.. , :;~. Research supported, education flourishes in Tyson greenhouses Sue Wolf (graduate-horticulture and plant breeding) works on plants in• the greenhouse. ANNOUNCING!! CUM IMMO Plan your next meal from the HUB... We've got something for everyone! FAST BREAK a contemporary, sports oriented, fast breakfast items & a complete lunch line sandwiches & milkshakes. FOOD FOR THOUGHT 1 1 :30am a mini-cafeteria featuring daily delicious, hot entrees along with a full array of salads and tempting desserts THE GREEN HOUSE 11:30am - I:lspm, spm - 6:45pm dine in Happy Valley's most tempting salad bar where you pay by the pound! Also featuring tasty hot soups and fresh cold sandwiches Also opening soon, the distinguished "Founders Room Restaurant" 3 great new all conveniently By KATHLEEN THEAL Daily Collegian Staff Writer A research facility, a florist shop, a classroom and a dormitory do not seem to to be related, yet they can all be found •in the greenhouse system behind Tyson Building each an integral part of the whole. Mark Shedlovsky, greenhouse supervisor, said research is the primary mission of the greenhouses. "A lot of breeding research is going on here, with plants such as geraniums, African violets and exacum," Shedlovsky said. "Dr. Richard Craig does a lot of research and breeding with seed geraniums in the first greenhouse behind Tyson." Craig, associate professor of plant breeding, has been working with geranium breeding research since he was an undergraduate at the University. He was instrumental in introducing the first seed-propagated geranium in 1960. "Now, we're researching seed-propagated, tetraploid geraniums (those with double the normal number of chromosomes), Craig said. "They have heavier, thicker flowers that slow growth very desirable traits to have." Research is also being done with energy conservation, The Grand Opening of eating & meeting places, located in the HUB basement 7:3oam - 9:3oam, 10:30am - 2:3opm - I:lspm, spm - 6:45pm Shedlovsky said. classroom work, Shedlovsky said. "We're using different types of glazing materials on "Last Fall Term, a class grew a crop of mums. Winter the greenhouses to see how they affect energy demands Term, greenhouse crop management was taught and the amount of light that enters," Shedlovsky said. Spring Term, a class on plant environment was "We've also been growing cool temperature crops offered," he said. flowering plants that require lower energy demands Terry Underkoffler (10th-horticulture) said, "I took so more fuel can be conserved." Hort 435, greenhouse crop management, and we worked Shedlovsky said they grow major seasonal crops that with different crops that could be sold. It was'a good : can be sold as cut flowers and plants in the sales area of course. I got a lot of experience." the greenhouses. Jim Dostal (11th-horticulture) gets experience seven "But we don't make production fit the season because days a week by actually living in the headhouses located we don't want to screw up the research," he said. "Sales in front of the greenhouses. are incidental to research, although we try to dispose of a lot of our research material through sales to recover "I've lived there 11 terms, the longest anyone has some expenses." lived in the headhouse," he said. "I'm there for the The sales area has a large clientele, Shedlovsky said, experience you learn a lot." even though the greenhouses do not advertise. In exchange for a free room, Dostal and another "We get our clientele by word of mouth," he said. student, Guy Metzler, must make 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. "The biggest buyers are students and faculty, but we security checks each night and alternate watering also attract some people from downtown. We also do everything on weekends. . consulting on sick plants if people bring them in." "It takes about four to five hours an afternoon on a Wendy McCarren (10th-agriculture) said, "I've sunny day," Dostal said. "We also have to maintain bought some nice plants there that were in good everything. Sometimes we have to get up in the middle condition and reasonably priced." of the night and fix the temperature if it gets too cold.: Other than the sales area, some space is reserved for It's a full-time job." food with HUB Food Services area; featuring quick hamburgers, fries, fish The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 10, 1981-15
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