Hello, My name is Alan Chryst and I'm the greenhouse manager of a private college called Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. I'm also on a committee called Friend of Mead Gardens which is also located in Winter Park, Florida. Our goal is to reinvent and revitalize Mead Gardens. Currently, we are putting together an exhibit for the Winter Park Historical Society of Mr. Mead who the garden is named after. Mr. Mead's chief hobby was growing orchids and he became internationally recognized. "The London Orchid Review" called him the creator of many artistic orchids, two of which The Kew Garden in London named for him. One, the Cattleya Meadii, for the man, and the other, the Cattleya Oviedo, for the town in
which he lived (Oviedo, FL). Mead kept meticulous records of his many hybridizations. In addition, according to our archives, Mr. Mead provided orchid seeds to Dr. Lewis Knudsen of Cornell University in connection with his experiment in orchid seed germination called the "Knudsen Method" of germinating orchid seeds on agar jelly in sealed flasks. Knudsen's experiments proved conclusively that orchid seeds could be made to germinate on their own, refuting the then accepted theory that orchid seeds were entirely dependent on symbiotic fungi from the mother plant. Dr. Knudsen credits Mr. Mead for providing the pristine seeds and was most helpful in his experiments. As part of the exhibit we would like to include pictures of the two orchids named after Mr. Mead. I have found a picture of C. Oviedo, but I cannot find one of C. Meadii for the exhibit. Do you have any you can send as an attachment to my e-mail address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or know of someone I may contact that may have a picture of it? thank you in advance for your time and help, Alan Chryst Rollins College Winter Park, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of AChryst.vcf]
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