. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 10 The Florists^ Review July 19, 1917. the florist who was exhibiting it as a part of his window display. As business grew Mrs. Gill enlarged her greenhouse establishment until she had four houses, none of which was so large as is now commonly built. Besides the calls for stock for Boston trade, the people of Medford began to depend upon Mrs. Gill for their flower wants. She had a natural instinct for flower ar- rangement and for many years made up funeral designs, wedding bouquets and decorations and baskets for other oc- casions. Freesias proved
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 10 The Florists^ Review July 19, 1917. the florist who was exhibiting it as a part of his window display. As business grew Mrs. Gill enlarged her greenhouse establishment until she had four houses, none of which was so large as is now commonly built. Besides the calls for stock for Boston trade, the people of Medford began to depend upon Mrs. Gill for their flower wants. She had a natural instinct for flower ar- rangement and for many years made up funeral designs, wedding bouquets and decorations and baskets for other oc- casions. Freesias proved to be one of Mrs. Gill's most profitable crops. Before this stock was generally known to the Bos- ton market, a friend gave Mrs. Gill some of the bulbs. She was successful as a grower of freesias and sold the first blooms in Boston. She also did a considerable business in the bulbs. Enjoyed Her Garden. Marechal Niel was the first hybrid rose Mrs. Gill grc^y indoors, but other varieties later were added. But it was her outdoor stock, which might be termed her first loves, that Mrs. Gill usually spoke of with the greatest inter- est. In describing her place she said: "My garden has given great pleas- ure to me and others also, being, as you might say, an old-fashioned one, planted in no formal style—just a profusion of bloom, a mingling of color. "I have many peonies, some of the famous Richardson seedlings, 300 or more hybrid rose bushes, phloxes, del- phiniums, irises, poppies, lilies of the valley and such annuals as asters, sal- vias, mignonette, cosmos, salpiglossis, centaureas and a collection of holly- hocks and dahlias, besides. I would ad- vise anyone who has a garden to culti- vate the yellow Scotch rose. The one in my garden was on the place when I went there fifty-five years ago.'' Besides cut flowers, Mrs. Gill grew pot plants for the spring trade. Much of her stock was sold in Medford, but considerable found its way into the Boston market. For many years
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