NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER SHOW
New Orleans, Louisiana
June 3, 2001

Mount Carmel Academy, a Catholic girls' school, was the site of the show for the fourth consecutive
year.  A service group at the school also provides volunteer help to the chapter during the show.

  Exhibitors prepare their blooms for judging early       Two tables of judges handled the 270 blooms          This mannequin , covered in polished aspidistra
  Sunday morning.                                                       entered.                                                                   leaves and Bobby Dupont's creation Evangeline,
                                                                                                                                                                  watched over the show.

SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS AND THE BLOOMS THEY CHOSE TO REPRESENT THEMSELVES

	AMATEUR Lynn Harwell, Theodore, AL MISS LIBERTY
	COLLECTOR Sam Andrews, Citronelle, AL CITRONELLA
	OPEN COLLECTOR Roz & Pat Merritt, Houston, TX RED HOT
	COMMERCIAL Dragon's Fire Dupont Nursery, Plaquemine, LA This is one of three seed pod siblings out of a cross of Dragon's Breath x Treasure Chest.  They all look to be dominated by Dragon's Breath.

CLASSIFICATION WINNERS

	AMATEUR SINGLE Lynn Harwell, Theodore, AL FOURTH OF JULY
	The winning bloom with its exhibitor.
	BEST COLLECTOR SINGLE Lenny Comeaux, Westwego, LA DRAGON'S BREATH
	BEST COLLECTOR DOUBLE Janice McNatt, Pearland, TX RED SNAPPER
	The winning bloom and its exhibitor.
	BEST OPEN COLLECTOR SINGLE Sandra & Wally Barr, Metairie, LA MERCI BEAUCOUP
	BEST OPEN COLLECTOR DOUBLE Roz & Pat Merritt, Houston, TX PILLOW DREAMS
	BEST COMMERCIAL SINGLE Dupont Nursery, Plaquemine, LA PAIN PERDU  (loosely translated, Cajun for French Toast).
	BEST MINIATURE SINGLE Steve Rockwell, Houston, TX CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
	BEST MINIATURE DOUBLE Sam Andrews, Citronelle, AL BAPTISTII (aka Hawaiian Flag)
	BEST REGULAR SEEDLING DOUBLE Ed Spillman, Baton Rouge, LA ROD HENDRICK
	BEST MINIATURE SEEDLING DOUBLE Ed Spillman, Baton Rouge, LA UNNAMED Hula Girl x Amber Suzanne

BEST OF SHOW

	BEST OF SHOW SINGLE Sam Andrews, Citronelle, AL HERM GELLER
	The winning bloom and its exhibitor.
	BEST OF SHOW DOUBLE Sandra & Wally Barr, Metairie, LA NEW IDEA
	BEST OF SHOW MINIATURE Sandra & Wally Barr, Metairie, LA PRIDE OF HANKINS
	BEST OF SHOW SEEDLING Dupont Nursery, Plaquemine, LA ETOUFEE'

Here are a few of the people who made this show possible.

After a very long day, enhanced by a delayed flight home,
Lone Star Chapter member and judge Janice McNatt
indulges in a Baskin-Robins ice cream cone while
watching over the plants she and the Merritt's
accumulated on this trip.