Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Abraham Liddon PENNOCK

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Abraham Liddon Pennock, Jr., nurseryman and florist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 3, 1827. He was educated at the Friends Select School and at Haverford College. He undertook to learn the woolen business, but the confinement in the mills affected his health and he returned to his father's farm, whence sprang his love for growing plants and flowers. He built his first greenhouses in Landsdowne, PA, in 1861, and three years later formed a partnership with his brother, J. Liddon Pennock, under the firm name of Pennock Bros., and began business in cut flowers, then a new enterprise, at the ancestral home at Twelfth and Market streets, Philadelphia, Pa. He was responsible for increasing the popularity of the lily-of-the-valley by preserving the pips in cold storage and planting them when needed throughout the entire year, thus furnishing the trade with a continuous supply of blooms. Other florists adopted this plan, and the lily-of-the-valley has thus been made an important feature in the cut-flower business.

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