Flowers were sold at the family butcher shop, H.M. Smith Meats, on the corner of Second and Oley streets in Reading beginning in the 1920s. Spring Garden Farms Nurseries was established in 1957 by Henry C. and Josephine Smith. The 30 plus acres in Birdsboro was purchased in 1962. Originally, the greenhouses were located along the Schuylkill River on Old River Road, but the Hurricane Agnes flood...