Orange (colour) while those in Europe were either white or red. Dutch farmers bred a variety that was orange; according to some sources, as a tribute to the stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, William of Orange. The long orange Dutch carrot, first described in 1721, is the ancestor of the orange horn carrot, one of the most common types found in supermarkets today. It takes its name from the town of Hoorn, in the Netherlands. Orange is traditionally associated with the autumn season, with the harvest and autumn leaves. The flowers, like orange fruits and vegetables and autumn leaves, get their colour
Virgil Blossom School. Blossom wrote about his experiences in Little Rock in a memoir, "It Has Happened Here" (1959). Blossom married Clarence Thomas Tribble on August 2, 1934. The couple had two children, Bettie Sue (born 1938), and Gail (born 1940). While in Fayetteville, Blossom was a member of the Lion's Club, Freemasons, Consistory, Knights Templar, and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. Virgil Blossom Virgil T. Blossom (born October 31, 1906 – 1965) was an American educator. Blossom is best known for his time in Little Rock, Arkansas as Superintendent of Schools (1953–1958) during the Little Rock Crisis. In 1955, after the