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                                                                   Exhibit 21.01



                                  Subsidiaries





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

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

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



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 28, 1996, a "significant subsidiary," as that term is
defined in Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X.