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High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina

20 Feb 1927

Page 12

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High Point Enterprise

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High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Feb 20, 1927

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12

Lilies turn small Florida plot into large fortune

Mrs. S Hendry, once housebound by illness, found health and wealth in floriculture. Planting calla lilies on Indian River near Cocoa, Florida, she earned 2000 dollars in year one, 5000 last year, and expects near double this season, selling bulbs to northern markets and florists.

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Romance of a Florida bulb boom and a new industry

Mrs. Hendry explains how 1926’s bulb exclusion act spurred Florida ridge growers to plant narcissus, gladioli, calla lilies, calas, tulips and hyacinths. She notes profits from bulbs, with plans by Northwest entrepreneurs to convert tents to homes and farm land to multi-crop use.

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