A bouquet assembled at Asylum Hill Nursery

02/08/1866 |

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Mr. Marchant, working at the Asylum Hill Nursery, put together a bouquet for “a citizen” who would use it later at a party.

The bouquet cost $8. The Courant deemed it “cheap” and “perfectly beautiful.”

Assembling a bouquet in February indicates that Affleck’s greenhouses functioned in winter.

Some notes on “Mr. Marchant”:

Marchant was probably Robert Marchant.
Marchant possibly worked at the nursery, but it may also have been an avocation.
Marchant was, however, one of Hartford’s first full-time paid firefighters, and he was employed as a firefighter at this point in time.
After Affleck’s death in February 1880, Marchant would take over the Asylum Hill Nursery. He also retired from the Hartford Fire Department around the same time.

In 2023, the bouquet would have cost $150.

Unattributed. “Sundry matters,” Hartford Daily Courant, February 9, 1866, page 2.

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