. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. [|llll!!!g!!I!MII]lilM • T" lilliMiirmiyiii' Jlomsts' RIVVIEW^ J]7lfmiTiril THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN FLORIST Probably no one is belter hnonn in the Inuh' in Boston and New England than Mrs. Gill, of Medford, Massaehaselts'' most famous noman florist. For more than fifty years she grew fl oners. Non\ at 87 years of age, she is eon fined to her home, but is none the less interested in the florists" business. if. HAT tlio oroatcst measure of success coincs to liiui wlio is in love Avith liis Avork is exemplified in the career of Mrs. Ellen M. C
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. [|llll!!!g!!I!MII]lilM • T" lilliMiirmiyiii' Jlomsts' RIVVIEW^ J]7lfmiTiril THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN FLORIST Probably no one is belter hnonn in the Inuh' in Boston and New England than Mrs. Gill, of Medford, Massaehaselts'' most famous noman florist. For more than fifty years she grew fl oners. Non\ at 87 years of age, she is eon fined to her home, but is none the less interested in the florists" business. if. HAT tlio oroatcst measure of success coincs to liiui wlio is in love Avith liis Avork is exemplified in the career of Mrs. Ellen M. Cill, of Meaford, Mass. L^—V Fur more than forty-five I r^V^ years Mrs. Gill {jrevv [.. "-^ —II ilowers for the Med ford and lioston markets. Now, ,'t!i iioufjli confined to lier room l)y the iiitiimities of age—she "vvas 87 years old .^?.l'.H? L'S—Mrs. Gill still is intensely iiii.'ifstcil in the florists' profession and .nMiideiitly ex])ects that she will recover li r strength sufliciently to again visit ll.'iticultural hall. Boston, where she a regular exhibitor for half a cen- rrol>ably no one interested in the uiiiuing of flowers and pliiiits and in the socie- f:i^ that are promoting III luoduction of good s'.ick, is better known ]': Jjoston and New i:riulaii ?•l(ii>s a])]iealcd to ' -. Gill and many va- 'i(s of new stock ' ajiprarcd in the -lun s t o r I' s came 'u her greenhouses. ~^ach was her success a pioneer grower I exhibitor that on I h her seventieth and g li t i e t li l)irthdnys . In lHi9, when shi> was 19 years old, she married George Gill. They began tlieir married life at Mel- rose anil moved to Medfonl in l^.'il. It Avas there that her natural ability to grow flow.'rs first had an opportunity to express itsidf and when, in 1 .SCiO, she and lier Imsband juindiased what is now the family lionie and ^reenlidusi' range at 28 Ashland strt'et, tliat opi'iotunity. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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