Word: lager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago two Miltonias, orchids of ancient lineage, were bred together. Last week at the fall flower show of New York's Horticultural Society, the offspring of this union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized...
...week at more than $5,000,000. Despite record London heat this summer the 2,000 delegates, experts and secretaries drank far less at the Conference's Long Bar than the optimistic concessionaires had expected. Chief Bartender "Jock" mournfully reported last week that they drank only 12,000 lager beers, only 3,000 gin fizzes, those being the most popular refreshers...
...private hothouses. Not long ago a Mr. F. E. Dixon of Elkins Park, Pa., an orchid grower with the instincts of a stockbroker, cornered the market by buying every available Cattleya Gigas Alba var Firmen Lambeau in Britain. From a stray orchid of the original Cattleya Gigas Alba, Mr. Lager acquired the piece of his own plant that flowered so lushly last week. There are seven bulbs on this. Soon he expects to have two plants in two pots. Only once a year does an orchid bloom. Not for generations can ordinary citizens expect to see the flowers of Alba...
...decades have Orchid-hunters Lager & Hurrell scrabbled through the jungles looking for orchids for tycoons' hothouses. Generation ago they made two astounding strikes. High up in the branches of a South American tree, John Emil Lager found a gold powdered red Masdevallia orchid unknown to science. Five hundred miles away he found a few other specimens. The entire shipment got sidetracked in a coastal warehouse, dried out, died. None was ever found again (TIME, April...
...John Lager's next great discovery was a pure fluke. In 1908 he sent a crate of 1,000 dormant,unpotted orchid plants from Colombia to his greenhouses in New Jersey. Since they were not in flower, there was no way of telling more than that they were Cattleya Gigas, a fairly common orchid family. Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate. The rest Mr. Lager potted, put in the greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever...