The Illustrated Plant Nut
I'm nuts about plants and all the animals and minerals that reside with them.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Louis Prevost Nursery in San Jose
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From San Jose News, January 27, 1942 Louis Prévost had one of the first "Pleasure gardens" in San Jose. Mrs. Mattie Reed Lewis...
On a Search for Old Palms
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Marked up Brainard map from the 1880 Santa Clara County Brainard Agricultural Atlas . Individual maps are accessed on right hand side. ...
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Why Canary Island Palms?
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Canary Island palms at entrance to California Nursery Historical Park Why would the Franciscan fathers have brought the Canary Island or...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Red-Flowering Horsechestnut at the park
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Red-flowering horsechestnut Aesculus × carnea April 2015 A very lovely tree. But what is it? It is a hybrid of the American Red Bu...
Monday, February 29, 2016
California Fan Palm
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California Fan Palm from the California Horticulturalist and Floral Magazine , 1870 See California Fan Palm on page 223 .
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Floods of 1861-1862
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Is it bad to want this much water? From the History of Alameda County, 1878 The Continuance and Severity of Winter Rains 1862 repo...
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Early California Horticulture Publications
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California Horticulture Just ran into this really lovely illustration on the cover of California Horticulture by George C. Roeding. S...
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