Friday, July 1, 2022

Where did John Rock get his trees for his experimental orchards?

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From the Museum of Local History scanned by California Revealed   No Guessing Required! You can look it up! This is one of many orchard reco...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Visiting the Pernet-Ducher roses in 1912

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The Pernet-Ducher family and the Pernetiana roses What are Pernetiana roses?  The Pernetiana roses was a category of roses introduced by the...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Native Plants and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae in 1904

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Stockton Record  17-Feb-1904  One hundred and 17 years ago, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae encouraged people to use native trees and ...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

The Red Garden at the GGIE

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  From the nursery catalog , the Court of Flowers So appropriate for this year, especially with the Mars Perseverence in the news...A Red Ga...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

California Nursery Company - 1884? or 1865?

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Plastered all over the office building is "California Nursery Co." "Established 1865" 1919 Catalog So many secondary ref...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Carl Purdy's Connections with Niles

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From "Land of Sunshine", May 1901 Here we are not collecting flowers, but rather we are collecting Carl Purdy references!  Our loc...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

The Three Fig Cranks

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"The Three Fig Cranks; July 17, 1900. Niles. A.E. Schwarz, John Rock, G. Eisen." . The Three Fig Cranks would make a great title f...