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                                                                      EXHIBIT 21


Subsidiaries




                                   STATE OF                OTHER NAMES FOR
COMPANY                         INCORPORATION            TRANSACTING BUSINESS
- -------                         -------------            --------------------
                                                     
AMS Industries, Inc.             Delaware                  ---------------
(formerly Cudahy Company)  

Frank's Nursery &                Michigan                  --------------- 
Crafts, Inc.

General Host Holding             New York                  ---------------
Corp.  



The names of all other subsidiaries are omitted since, considered in the
aggregate as a single subsidiary, they would not have constituted, as of the
fiscal year ended January 29, 1995, a "significant subsidiary," as that term is
defined Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X.