. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. th arrilscellaneous collection of plants, andwith a capital of something like ,1l>20 incash and his fathers credit to back him,ho started as a retail florist. In thisbranch he continued until 16(85, when heconceived the idea of selling some of hisstock at wholesale and began to adver-tise pausies and verbenas iu the then ex-isting trade journal. About this timealso he commenced growing carnationsmore extensively, consigning the cutflowers to commissiou men in Philadel-phia.
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. th arrilscellaneous collection of plants, andwith a capital of something like ,1l>20 incash and his fathers credit to back him,ho started as a retail florist. In thisbranch he continued until 16(85, when heconceived the idea of selling some of hisstock at wholesale and began to adver-tise pausies and verbenas iu the then ex-isting trade journal. About this timealso he commenced growing carnationsmore extensively, consigning the cutflowers to commissiou men in Philadel-phia. In 1886 Mr. Herr built an addition tohis place in the shape ol a thiee-quarter-span house, ITMxJJ feet lor carnationgrowing, and one (jOxJ feet for coleus,which latter he began to grow in quan-tity to supply the trade with rooted cut-tings. All of these houses were heatedwith brick flues and with all the old-timemethods. Notwithstanding, our youngfriend turned out, for that time, someyery fine carUiTtion blooms and coleuscuttings, and jdants that made a tradefor themselves. In the blizzard of 1887, the fines did. albeet m. here. surely being one well worthy of emula-tion. Mr. Herr was born July 19, 1862, inLancaster County. His father, DanielK. Herr, has always been interested inhorticulture, and as a boy Albert wastaught to love plants and to learn theirhabits. The family moved to LancasterCity, Pa., when the young man was four-teen years old. Here he spent some timewith A. D. Rohrer & Bro.; and a fewyears afterwards his father started inthe florist business at his present loca-tion. Albert finished a course in the publicschools of Lancaster City, and, he says,took to the botanical studies like aduck takes to water. During his schoolyears he was taught to be self-reliantand industrious, getting an Insight intothe florist business by spending all hisspare moments with his father. AfterHnishing his education, Mr. Herr ob-tained a situation In the LancasterWatch factory; thence
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