We are willing to support this and this is what we need. The university and the state are more responsive to industries who support them and who make their needs known. We are not proud. We accept all contributions regardless of size. The more people who contribute, the more interest and excitement this chair will stimulate.
Contributors have five years to pay their pledge.
Texas floriculture and ornamental horticulture ranks third to fifth nationally in most every area. We are quite different climatically from much of the nation. I believe there are two horticulture chairs, the D.C. Kiplinger Chair at Ohio State University and the Gordon and Margaret Bailey Sr. Endowed Chair in Environmental Horticulture at University of Minnesota. I remember when the Kiplinger Chair was endowed.