Generational business banks on variety
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July 7, 2022

Generational business banks on variety

In 1930, Sam Bridge Jr. started growing evergreen cuttings in a cow pasture. Not long after he started that venture, the enterprising young horticulturist built a greenhouse to grow geranium cuttings for his mother and her friends. Sam studied horticulture at Cornell University and Kew Gardens in England, then served in World War

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