The sun has inched over the horizon, traffic on the nearby Southeast Expressway has yet to congeal into its chronic congestion, and, already, James McAdams — who left the outskirts of Montreal at midnight — is hard at work on Albany Street.
He’s got a truckload of begonias and, after a 300-mile drive, he’s slipped into the loading dock behind the Boston Flower Exchange, where business is in high gear and florists from throughout New England are clutching shopping lists, looking for roses and lilies and the one-stop-shopping bargains they’ve found here for 44 years.
Steve Clouthier of Stoneblossom, an event florist in Warren, R.I., is buying peonies, green leaf, and sweet Eskimo roses for weddings of splendor scheduled this weekend for the Gilded Age mansions of Newport.
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