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The Antonys and their four employees start more than 15,000 young azaleas and perennials from cuttings each year. Most are sold wholesale to a specialty ' retailer* ~ 1ft'—Fali-f&x. -v “Wholesaling is a low-markup, high volume business,* Antony explained. “Most wholesalers sell hundreds of thousands of plants. We would like to expand our direct retail operations but, (for many people), it’s a long three miles from (U.S.) 211.*
Long Mountain keeps some 500 of the more than 900 azalea varieties as cutting stock,
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