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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. -
Martin County flower farm, c. 1955
Rows of flowers at an unidentified Martin County flower farm. -
Flower farm equipment truck, c. 1955
Farm equipment truck at the Gerald L. Knouse chrysanthemum flower farm in Stuart. Poor copy. -
Taking notes at a Martin County flower farm, c. 1955
Woman takes notes while touring or visiting an unidentified Martin County flower farm. -
Inspecting flowers, c. 1955
Unidentified man inspects flowers at a Martin County flower farm. -
Flower processing, c. 1955
Workers sort cut lily flowers on tables at a flower farm at H & H Lily Growers Farm on Murphy Rd. in Palm City. H & H Lily Growers Farm was owned by Richard G. Hupfel (on left). -
Martin County flower farm, c. 1955
Lily farm with workers in the background. Possibly H & H Lily Growers farm in Palm City. -
Hyrdoponic greenhouse, 1950
Photograph by Earl Dyer Ricou published in the Stuart News (05 Jan 1950) with caption "No-Soil Gardening Project Conducted In Jensen Beach. Mrs. Harry Swinglehurst, Stuart Garden Club president, (left) inspects the green house of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Murdock in Jensen Beach where an enlarging project of hydroponic or no-soil gardening is being conducted."