Show dixie nurseryman pnat I 1 breeds new plants develops odd crosses of apples peaches plums NEW ORLEANS ORLEAN SIt if its an edible plant sigmund probably grows a variation of it youve never heard about if its a lily you can omit the probably on a side road out of new orleans is the nursery where he has developed a grapefruit sized orange juicy seedless capable of surviving two degrees below zero where hes working to add a new vitamin to the tomato and where thrives the pygmy lily which he created for tiny ponds born in hungary of nurserymen nurseryman nursery men ancestors for five generations before him he came to the united states with 25 and got a job in a baltimore florist shop he has since been superintendent 0 of parks at macon ga and has owned successively three nurseries the road to his present place is bumpy purposely left so because time to show visitors around his plant crammed acres it takes about three hours to walk around the nursery and inspect the projects like the new plant with an edible root that tastes like a peanut and looks like a shrimp and then there are strange crosses of apples peaches and plums but his specialty is lilies because he bought his present land without looking too closely and later found it an area of ponds full of alligators and water moccasins of the astonishing diversity of lilies he has produced he is especially proud of one that turned out deep red the darkest ried red ever he creates a new plant patents it and turns it over to large scale nursery operators they market it and he gets royalties |