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A7411-2
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- 1938-08-08 (Creation)
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On August 8, 1938, several men and women sorted bulbs by hand as they passed by on a conveyor belt in a shed at the George Lawler bulb farm in Gardenville, near Fife. The bulbs were cleaned by hand, old husks and dirt removed, and daughter bulbs separated. Diseased bulbs were discarded. After this process was completed, the bulbs went to a grading machine, where they were sorted by size. In 1910, George Lawler bought five muddy acres near Fife and began experimenting with flowers as a crop. At first he sold the cut flowers, but he quickly began to view the bulbs as the money crop. The area around his home was renamed Gardenville in honor of his flowers, and George Lawler became one of the founders of the Northwest bulb industry.
Lawler Bulbs (Fife); Crops; Lawler, George--Homes & haunts; Agricultural laborers--Fife--1930-1940;