Name/Title
Pitcher & Manda: Orchid Growing Medal from Columbian Exposition, 1893Entry/Object ID
2010.050.001Description
Pitcher and Manda Ochid Growing Bronze Medal from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Pitcher & Manda was a major contributor to the 1893 Columbian World's Exposition. According to the official publication of the Exposition:
"Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, N. J., is that grand horticultural establishment to which the World's Fair Commission is much indebted, for they have contributed in store plants more than any other house, and without their huge tree ferns, their orchids, and other plants, renewed the whole summer, the horticultural building would have lacked some of its most attractive features. It is a delight to see their vast establishment in Short Hills. Nowhere in America can one see such a variety of plants and flowers, indoors and outdoors; even nursery articles are to be found there. But we have to do here only with the seeds they exhibited, and this collection consisted of about 2,000 flower seeds, etc., in small paper bags as they are in use now in nearly all businesses, each having a colored figure of the flower which will come from the seed."Acquisition
Accession
2010.050Source or Donor
Lynne RanieriAcquisition Method
Gift
