Michael T Tracy

James Millar Buist (1824-1919) Michael T Tracy

James Millar Buist, a gardener in Fife, typified the entrepreneurial spirit in Scottish gardening in Fife to becoming a successful florist in America's largest city of the 19th century, New York City, New York, United States. Having left Scotland in 1849 at the young age of 25, James Millar Buist, as an entrepreneur, began numerous floral shops during a period of economic growth in the United States, raised a family, and finally bought a farm to start a rose farming business in Dingman Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania. The business was quite successful in catering to florist shops in New York City and beyond. Buist was a well-respected rose grower and florist and lived to the advanced age of 94. This then is the narrative of the life and times of James Millar Buist.