Mouth Watering Watercolors of Fruits

USDA collection
Hachia Roeding

The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection has loads of beautiful watercolor fruits (Wikipedia with links to the collection) 

Search the collection. Captions are not all searchable so you have to (get to) look through them all. For example, Searching for Roeding does not pop up these persimmons and figs.

Selected here are fruits from (probably) Fancher Creek Nursery. Anything noted as Roeding would probably have been from his Fresno nursery - Fancher Creek Nurseries.

The "Old Adobe" Trademark of the California Nursery Company

 

The "Old Adobe" oranges were sold at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939-1940. 

The "Old Adobe" trademark was filed in 1943. 

It first appeared as a small graphic in the 1940s catalog. And from then on it was frequently seen on stationary, shirt patches, and order forms. 

Montgomery Redwoods 2023 and 1894

We took a trip up to Montgomery Redwoods
for CGLHS convention field trip

One of Grace Hudson’s drawings with several preliminary sketches was on display at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. They were for an Overland Monthly article during Milicent’s editorship - August & September 1892 “Staging in the Mendocino Redwoods part 1 & II”.