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Winners 2000 



(Greenhouse Product News, May, 1999) 



All-America Selections (AAS) and All- 

 America Rose Selections (AARS) offer 

 twelve award-winners for the year 2000. 



AAS, which is celebrating its 65th 

 anniversary, invites breeders from 

 around the world to enter unsold 

 seed-propagated flowers and vegetables 

 into its annual trial. Labeled only with 

 coded numbers, the entries are grown 

 alongside similar varieties and evaluated 

 by professional horticulturists. 



There are nine winners: 



'Blushing Beauty' (Seminis Veg- 

 etable Seeds), four-lobed, blocky bell 

 peppers that change from ivory to 

 pink to red as they mature; 



'Cosmic Orange' (Ernst Benary), a 

 dwarf, branching cosmos with im- 

 proved vigor and habit; 



'Fiesta del Sol' (Ernst Benary), the 



first truly dwarf Mexican sunflower, 

 with bright orange, daisy-like blos- 

 soms attractive to butterflies; 



'Indian Summer' (Harris Moran 

 Seed), the first sweet corn to feature 

 kernels of white, red, yellow, and 

 purple; 



'Melody Pink' (Sakata Seed), a 

 cutflower dianthus with sprays of 

 single one-inch pink flowers on stems 

 of up to twelve inches; 



'Mr. Big' (Seminis Vegetable 

 Seeds), sweetly flavored peas in pods 

 four inches long and a half inch in 

 diameter; 



'Savoy Express' (Seminis Vegetable 

 Seeds), the earliest Savoy cabbage to 

 hit the market, ready for harvest 55 

 days after transplanting; 



'Soraya' (Ernst Benary), a sun- 

 flower with striking deep orange 

 flowers with chocolate brown centers; 



'Stardust Orchid' (PanAmerican 



Seed), heat- and drought-tolerant, the 

 first vinca having an orchid flower 

 with a white center. 



For more, visit the AAS website: 

 www.allamericaselection.org. 



AARS offers three selections: 



'Crimson Bouquet' (Bear Creek Gar- 

 dens), a grandiflora with bright red 

 blooms, commended for its "color, har- 

 diness, profijsion, and disease-resistance; " 



'Gemini' (Bear Creek Gardens), a 

 hybrid tea with large double blossoms 

 shaded coral-pink and rich cream; 



'Knock Out' (The Conard-Pyle 

 Co.), a shrub rose with deep, almost 

 florescent, cherry-red blossoms from 

 spring until late fall alongside egg- 

 plant-purple and burgundy foliage 

 and seen as "a glowing example of 

 disease-resistance at its best." 



AARS is at 221 North LaSalle 

 Street, Chicago, IL 60601; the tele- 

 phone number is 312-372-7090. 



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 Located on Route 28, 1 7^ mile south of the Alton Traffic Circle 



Ozvners Bnice and Linda Holmes 



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