[How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II
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An excerpt from an episode of John Nash Ott's weekly television program How Does Your Garden Grow?, focusing on growing and caring for delphinium.
Credits
John Nash Ott Jr. (filmmaker); John Ott Pictures, Inc. (production company); John Nash Ott Jr. (host)
Complete catalog record
Date: circa 1952
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: This brief excerpt shows Ott as he handles a flower box filled with soil.; In the complete episode, Ott demonstrates his techniques for planting, caring for and transplanting seedlings, controlling delphinium-loving pests, cutting the flowers in order to preserve them and supplying winter protection. He quizzically describes delphinium as "dolled-up larkspur," and compares it to "Suzie Slapsaddle" who goes to Hollywood to become a glamor doll, and changes her name to "Suzan Harvard."
Subjects: Flowers; Plants; Gardens
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 20 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36412; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36414
Cfa collection: John Nash Ott Collection
Notes: This brief excerpt shows Ott as he handles a flower box filled with soil.; In the complete episode, Ott demonstrates his techniques for planting, caring for and transplanting seedlings, controlling delphinium-loving pests, cutting the flowers in order to preserve them and supplying winter protection. He quizzically describes delphinium as "dolled-up larkspur," and compares it to "Suzie Slapsaddle" who goes to Hollywood to become a glamor doll, and changes her name to "Suzan Harvard."
Subjects: Flowers; Plants; Gardens
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Winnetka
Cfa elements: Reversal Positives, 20 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36412; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/36414
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Sources
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Record added 2026-11-08 21:24:51