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Show Nation in Bloom As Flower Week Observance Set The entire nation is "in bloom" this week for the third annual observance ob-servance of National Flower Week. Sponsored by the Society of American Ameri-can Florists, National Flower Week is planned as a tribute to the beauty and happiness brought into everyday every-day lives by flowers. Throughout the week unusual facts and information infor-mation on flowers will be disseminated dissemi-nated to the public. Because of the abundance of flowers flow-ers during the early part of November, Novem-ber, the entire nation will be converted con-verted into a fall flower festival. Florist shops and greenhouses will hold open houses, featuring special displays of flowers and plants. Typical of the marked strides made in floriculture are development develop-ment of double varieties of many flowers and cross-pollination. Continuous Con-tinuous research is being accomplished accom-plished in all phases of floriculture. In the scientific field, hydroponics, a system whereby flowers are grown in chemical solutions without with-out soil, required 75 years of study and experimentation. Keeping the industry attuned with the times, shipments by air, telegraph tele-graph deliveries and new methods of packaging and preserving flowers flow-ers have been developed as means of prolonging the public's pleasure from flowers. |