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Smell The Blossoms

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Frank Girmonde (1914-1987) of #6 Down moved the business from Park Ave. to 210 S. __ Street in Herkimer in 1965 and the business became known as Reads-Girmonde Flowers, which continued until 2004.
When #1 Down (Dockerty) retired in 1970, the Little Falls Burwell Street business was purchased by the Geloso brothers of Ilion. The greenhouse is now a side parking lot for the Little Falls __.
In 2005, a bus trip was sponsored to take Herkimer County veterans to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. While there, they also visited the __ National Cemetery where one of the members placed flowers on her brother's gravesite, donated by Flowers By Suzanne in Herkimer.
Alfred E. Arlington (1893-1965) came to the area in 1911 from Philadelphia as a semi-pro baseball player with the Remington Typewriter team where he met his wife Ruth Gleason (1897-1987). They operated her family florist business on N. Washington St. in Herkimer where he invented a process for __ cut flowers with plastic foam called “Sno-Pak” and gave florists demonstrations of his process throughout the Eastern states.
Frank Gatto (1895-1965) of Frankfort was an Italian immigrant who served in WW1 and was a village trustee and town assessor. He started a greenhouse with his wife Mary Cattat (1901-1983) at 211 5th Ave. and they offered their home grown flowers and vegetables at a __ stand.
In 1966, brothers Joe (1924-2011), Sam and Frank (1940-2019) Geloso opened up __ __Florist & Gift Shop in Ilion at 5-7 E. Main Street.
Rosa Thomas (1865-1940) of Herkimer was the owner of a renowned gladiola farm, Dotenhurst Flower Fields, and welcomed visitors to view over 65,000 blooms each summer and sold bulbs on site and through a catalog. The site of the farm is now a car dealership - __ Ponte.
How many of us remember driving down the gravel drive off Rt. 5 in Herkimer to go to __'s. Anthony (1917-1990) and Julia (1919-2009) __ operated their successful Truck Farm and Green House business for 50 years. They moved their location in the summer of 2006 to Gros Blvd.
The unique looking home across from the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in __ on 70 E. Main Street used to be Corrigan's Flowers in 1988.
The little florist shop on Garden Street located at the top of 2nd Street in Little Falls was operated in 1921 by Fred Read (1875-1928) when he left his job as shoe salesman at Munger's. His wife Julia (1880-1956) and their son Laurence (1907-1980) continued operating it until 1953 when D. Rosario Girmonde bought it and called it Rosie's __.
Most popular planted flower in New York State.
Urban __ led to #13 Across' shop on Main Street's demolition in 1969 when Otsego Street was extended northward to Clark St.
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John Dockerty (1897-1983) had a shopfront at 562 E. Main Street in Little Falls from 1932 until he moved his business to 157 Burwell Street in 1965. He offered a __ shop along with his floral business with a complete line of fish food and aquariums.
Almost 60 percent of fresh-cut flowers grown in the U.S. come from this state.
Joseph, Samuel and Frank Geloso did so well with their floral business, they developed a new shopping area called __ Plaza in 1969 when they moved their florist and gift shop.
There was a greenhouse on Park Ave. in Herkimer as early as 1905, but best remembered as Brayton Flowers operated by Haswell P. Brayton (1887-1957) and his wife Laura (1888-1953), and later by their son Haswell P., Jr. (1913-1993) from 1933 until 1956 when the son sold it to Frank Girmonde, who renamed it Read's Flowers. You have to use your imagination because now it is a __ __ (former Crocker's Agency).
Dolgeville holds an annual __ Festival, which started in 1998.
David H. Burrell (1841-1919) of Little Falls hired Walter Bonfield in 1890 to conduct a greenhouse at __ Mansion. Bonfield left in 1895 to build his own greenhouse at the top of 2nd St., most likely the precursor to Read's Flowers.
Official state flower of New York. It's also the national flower!
Lyndon Waldo Lyon (1904-1999) of Dolgeville, was a horticulturist whose cross-breeding, or hybridization, established him as the world's most important breeder of __ violets.
Theodore Schesch (1853-1936) came to Ilion to work for the Remington's but eventually would leave to begin his own florist shop at 132 E. Main St. leaving it to his son Albert (1896-1969) to carry on. The well known "Schesch The Florist" was the __ running shop in the county, starting in 1919 up to the 1990s (at least).
One of the first greenhouses to use __-ponics in central New York was in Newport in 1969 by Maurice D. Monteau (1896-1979) who had a company in Middleville called Agroponics, Inc. They shipped bedding plants to select outlets of Sears & Roebuck, Loblaws, P&C, and Agway.
3rd generation, family owned and operated florist and greenhouse in East Herkimer that is still in operation today.
In the 1960s, Hoke's Flowers was open at 101 W. Main Street in Ilion (now a service station). It was operated by Leslie Hoke (1919-1970) and his wife Betty Kittle (1921-2000). They took it over from her parents Marvin and M. Lois Kittle when they retired in 1951. In 1970 they were Ilion girl's __ league team champions.
Paul Sorano of #14 Down appeared in a segment on the __ Stewart Show on February 7, 2012, representing Lyndon Lyon Greenhouses. They discussed the various types of violets, how to repot a plant with a neck, and how to propagate from leaves.