. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. HAT the greatest measure of success comes to him who is in love with his work is exemplified in the career of Mrs. Ellen M. Gill, of Medford, Mass. For more than forty-five years Mrs. Gill grew flowers for the Medford and Boston markets. Now, although confined to her room by the infirmities of age—she was 87 years old June 28^Mrs. Gill still is intensely interested in the florists' profession and confidently expects that she will recover her strength sufficiently to again visit Horticultural hall, Boston, where she ?w'.is a regular exhibitor for ha
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. HAT the greatest measure of success comes to him who is in love with his work is exemplified in the career of Mrs. Ellen M. Gill, of Medford, Mass. For more than forty-five years Mrs. Gill grew flowers for the Medford and Boston markets. Now, although confined to her room by the infirmities of age—she was 87 years old June 28^Mrs. Gill still is intensely interested in the florists' profession and confidently expects that she will recover her strength sufficiently to again visit Horticultural hall, Boston, where she ?w'.is a regular exhibitor for half a cen- tury. Probably no one interested in the growing of flowers and plants and in the socie- ties that are promoting the production of good stock, is better known in Boston and New England than Mrs. Gill. Beginning as an amateur in 1860, her success with flowers ?was so great that she gradually enlarged her activities until 1870, wlien she built the first of lier four greenhouses at Medford and began to grow for the market. rirst with Freesias. Mrs. Gill is said to have been the first frrower to supply the rioston market with I'loesias. She also was ii'aong the first to pro- vluce violets indoors i' n d in coldf rames, \> hich stock she sold to J'Oston retailers. '-"ovelties appealed to - "^rs. Gill and many va- -:eties of new stock • 'lat appeared in the ^' oston stores came "om her greenhouses. Such was her success ? * a pioneer grower ' nd exhibitor that on oth her seventieth and i g h t i e t h birthd-ays lie Massachusetts horticultural Society ave receptions in her onor and on the latter ate she was made a "fe member. She also has been elected an honorary member of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, and of the Ladies' Bociety of American Florists. A Native Bostonian. ' Mrs. Gill was born in Boston June 28, 1830, a member of the Bowditch family, which traced its ancestry from John Al- den and Richard Warren of the May- flower time.
Size: 1449px × 1724px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecad, booksubjectfloriculture, bookyear1912
