Carroll Douglas Thomas built up a good business, in addition to his daffodil fields, shipping daffodils to northern markets. The Gazette-Journal reported in July 1947 that Thomas, in partnership with Howard Hudgins of Cobbs Creek, created M&G Transfer Company, after they purchased the German Transfer Co. from C. H. German of James Store. They added the German company’s routes and patrons to those which Thomas and Hudgins had previously established. The newspaper reported, “Mr. Hudgins was proprietor of the M&G Transfer Co. at Cobbs Creek and Mr. Thomas operated a fleet of trucks from his headquarters at Nuttall. Mr. German had built the German Transfer Co. to a point where it was handling a large amount of freight to and from Baltimore and other points and had a large warehouse at James Store.” These fleets of trucks are an echo of the boom days of the 20th century local daffodil industry, when flower farmers in Gloucester and Mathews worked overtime to pick and ship the blooms...