"at the Barbados Museum over the weekend... the Barbados Orchid Society's orchid show.
The show... is held every two years... Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development... Erskine Griffith... pledged Government's... support of orchid growing in Barbados as he said it was a billion-dollar international business. "The ministry will continue to germinate and multiply orchid seeds for evaluation purposes. Currently, the tissue culture laboratory has been collecting data on Hawaiian orchid cultivars and will continue its work into sub-culturing existing Thai cultivars for selling and breeding purposes," he said. ... Judging the displays were members from the American Orchid Society." article url : http://www.nationnews.com/story/325774633898703.php ************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
