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Portable steam boiler used for weeding, 1954
Published in the Stuart News (14 Oct 1954) with the caption "Here's Stanley Smith's Portable Machine. Ralph Pierson checks over the portable steam boiler now being employed by flower grower Stanley Smith here to combat weeds and insect pests in his operations." Equipment marked "steam-flo" -
Using a steam boiler, 1954
Unidentified man uses a machine on a mobile cart to steam the soil at a flower farm, killing pests and weeds. -
Adjusting farm equipment, 1954
Published in the Stuart News (14 Oct 1954) with the caption "Locally-Devised Rake Injects Steam In The Ground. Flower grower C. M. Luce (right) and his foreman, Kenneth Hampton, inspect the Luce Flower Farm's rake-like device that is employed to steam-heat the soil to kill off weeds and insect pests of the flowers. The mechanism at right pulls the rake. In center rear is the stationary boiler that generates the steam." -
Gerald L. Knouse Wholesale Grower truck, c. 1955
Agricultural equipment truck at the Gerald L. Knouse chrysanthemum flower farm in Stuart. -
Franklin O. Rinker inspects flowers, 1952
Similar photo published in the Stuart News (11 Dec 1952) with a caption reading "Franklin O. Rinker, new Martin County resident from Bloomsburg, Pa., inspects a bed in his 2-acre flower-growing layout north of Stuart. This particular section of the layout was among the first planted by the Rinkers and their initial pom-pom blooms are scheduled to be cut from it next month" -
Florida Flower Assoc. Inc. truck terminal, 1957
The Florida Flower Association leased the old Hayes Motor Co. building located at 4th St. (Ocean Boulevard) and Old Dixie in Stuart as a terminal for shipping flowers grown by local farmers. Painted on the building is "Say it with flowers from Florida" and "Florida Flower Ass'n. Inc. Truck Terminal." -
Clifford M. Luce, c. 1955
Clifford M. Luce, owner of Clifford M. Luce & Son flower farm in Stuart for 30 years. Luce was also elected supervisor of the Martin Soil Conservation District in 1953. -
Clifford M. Luce & Son flower farm, c. 1955
Rows of planted flowers and grow lights at Clifford M. Luce & Son flower farm in Stuart. -
Clifford M. Luce & Son flower farm, c. 1955
Rows of planted flowers under cover at Clifford M. Luce & Son flower farm in Stuart. -
Flowers planted under cover, c. 1955
Rows of flowers planted under cover at an unidentified Martin County flower farm.