Orchid Nursery 1967

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Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

Several shots show exotic orchid blooms in a glasshouse at Charlesworths' Nursery. Leslie Nye pollinates two orchids. Eric Bowers snips a pod from an orchid plant, scrapes some seeds onto a glass slide and looks at them under a microscope, then puts them into a...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4363
Sort Number:
CP 670
Time in/Out:
01:02:41:00 / 01:04:50:00
Canister:
CP 670
Film ID:
431.02
Issue Date:
26/10/1967

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