The Easter lily owes it’s thanks to Louis Houghton who brought them back from a trip to Bermuda in 1919. He returned home to Oregon with a suitcase packed with bulbs he distributed to family and friends. In 1945 there were 1200 lily farms in Oregon and the US displaced Bermuda and Japan who dominated the Lily market up until that time. Lilies are their highest demand the two weeks before Easter, but is still a marketable product being the fourth largest flower crop in the United States.
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