Orchid Care News for 09-29-2004

University-run lab partners with Chinese firm to bring orchids to Shore (WAVY 10)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com

"PRINCESS ANNE, Md. Farmers and horticulturists are trying to grow 30-thousand orchids on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It's the second agricultural incubator from Thomas Handwerker and Dan Kuennen, faculty members of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore."

Fashion designer Geoffrey Beene dies (CNN.com)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com

"NEW YORK -- Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77."