Flower Power

One of the largest family-owned orchid businesses in the country, based in Florida, started with a curious young boy, a Model T Ford and a yellowish-green flower.

It also includes an eight-point buck deer and a wild bearded turkey. That was the haul from a hunting outing in the Everglades one day in 1927.

The deer, the turkey and the flower, a needle-sharp orchid from a fallen cypress tree, were in the back seat of Albert “A.B.” Hollingsworth's Ford. But it was the orchid, over the prey, that magnetized Hollingsworth's young son, A.P. Hollingsworth.