. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Robert Halliday. locally and through a great section of the south has been long connected by business interests and family and social ties with this community, standing in the same authoritative relation to gardening pursuits here as did the Buists, Brecks, Thorburns, Ellwangers and Barrys to other centers of horticultural activity and influence. His paternal grandfather, Robert Hal- liday, a Scotchman of sturdy physique and robust mind, came from Dumfries to this country in 1837. A skilled and experienced nursery
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Robert Halliday. locally and through a great section of the south has been long connected by business interests and family and social ties with this community, standing in the same authoritative relation to gardening pursuits here as did the Buists, Brecks, Thorburns, Ellwangers and Barrys to other centers of horticultural activity and influence. His paternal grandfather, Robert Hal- liday, a Scotchman of sturdy physique and robust mind, came from Dumfries to this country in 1837. A skilled and experienced nurseryman, he at once found employment with the Thorburns in New York. The year following he came to Baltimore and engaged with Mr. Sinclair, who had one of the earliest nurseries in this section and which is still successfully conducted. He was of too independent a disposition, however, to work long for others and soon estab- lished himself in business on Lexington street. Later he acquired a spacious property on Pennsylvania avenue, where a large range of glass houses was erect- ed, and the foundation laid of a widely expanded trade, which was known all through the land. The nursery was maintained on the Liberty road and is said to have been a model of neatness, good order and careful cultivation. His greenhouses soon became famous for their culture of camellias, poinsettias and daphnes which were the vogue for many years, and their products were sent to all available markets, the camellias especially being shipped to New York, where the demand was so great that the price often reached in the holiday season, $12 for the dozen flowers. The azalea was, a little later, another spe- cialty of this establishment and was pro- pagated and distributed in great quanti- ties. The foresight and keen business judg- ment of the man was shown during the war, when Mr. Halliday, who had long done a large business with the south, arguing that the country there devastated by the conflict would be ba
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