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Millican 8/31/65 -b- into a rock garden or a garden of some type - you tell the man to go out and do it. -,I dont see what you are . . . . ' Millican: Tato or three men around town who do landscaping.. When W - body wants things planted we tell them to get these people and they do the work. Nickerson: If you are going to sell all these.materials all you do is have a man put them together and you are approximately doing a laud- . seeping business. I would advise you to sell these materials and let your -man carry on. from there. if they -want tiles or crashed stone let them get it. Yon have quite a display of bird supplies - bird seed, bird houses - it is a Garden Center business. Is it material raised on the premises? You had.wshing wells, you had all these things. I guess you.have dis- posed of.the garden statuary. Millicent We have disposed of them. Nickerson- When you talk about birdhouses and bird seed we.camot feel you. need these things. Milliean: We are not allowed to ran a Garden Center? Nickersoat Are you in a commercial zone? There were miles and regula- tions when you set up. Millican: I bought my first place in 1923 - believe me, I have been in the same business ever since I came to Lexington. We were the first to put gardening in the Woolworth stores. We had thousands and thous- ands of all kinds of planters - we had plants in everything. We sold- wholesale and retail. We are doing the same thing we did all along. Can't. see why all of a sudden . . . Uckersonr When :you ran your wholesale business. you didn't,have,the general public up there in dozens of automobiles. We will get away from what you did before the rules and regulations because we have estab- lished the fact that this operation was started after we had rules and regulations. As to the point at issue, I have answered your point as to birdhouses, bird seed and the things that go with it. You certain- ly don't ertainly.don't raise your bird seed - it.is certainly not connected with horti- culture. Millican: In garden centers yon have -these items. Nickerson. You are not supposed to be operating a garden center. ' Millican: On vegetables - isn't there a ruling where they are allowed to bay •50% of produce - oranges, lemons, etc. they dont raise an the farm? We thought we might be able to do the same thing. ' Nickerson: Town Meeting Members might have said it included you but they didn't.