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Farming flowers: Hilliard's wholesale peonies rooted in 1920s

By Karen Binder, The Southern

Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:33 AM

HARRISBURG - This Mother's Day, David Hilliard will find himself surrounded with buckets full of white, pink and red peonies.

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