Harry V. Lawrence 
Founder and President: 
of H. V. Lawrence, Inc 

ACK IN 1886 a young horticultural-minded man, 
son of a Cape Cod whaling captain, established the 
first beginnings of what is now H. V. Lawrence, Inc. 
Equipped with good taste and a natural flare for the 
work, he bought and sold ornamental plants, fruit 
trees, seeds and fertilizers, and built his first green- 
house, illustrated on this page, for raising flowers and 
plants for the home. 
Today, at the age of 88, H. V. Lawrence is the 
active head of the large business organization which 
bears his name. 
Trees, the size of broomsticks, planted by him in 
his early years now give beauty, shade and character 
to many a home and many a street on Cape Cod. 
Some of the gardens he planted and tended for the 
Cape Cod housewives of those days still survive, 








