Holiday season tradition continues at Vineland: Annual open house offers 'one-stop-shopping' in viewing new poinsettia varieties

摘要

Well, it seems that conducting a poinsettia cultivai trial here at the Vineland Research Station greenhouses has become somewhat of a tradition, and this year is no exception. There are 120 cultivars now in the greenhouse and they're broken down by colour as follows; 52 red, 20 pink, 19 white, 16 novelty, eight marble and five Jingle type. Dummen, Paul Ecke Ranch, Fischer USA, Oglevee and Selecta First Class have all provided plant material this year. You might say that there can't be much new! But that's not true. There are new cultivars from all the breeders, some of them already named, with Dummen and Paul Ecke Ranch each supplying four numbered selections for the trial.