From "Land of Sunshine", May 1901 |
Here we are not collecting flowers, but rather we are collecting Carl Purdy references!
Our local author, Charles Howard Shinn, wrote about Carl Purdy several times. The Shinn women went to Ukiah to visit him.
Purdy ordered plants from the California Nursery Company.
Lots of local connections.
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
The East Bay landscape designer, Howard Gilkey worked with Luther Burbank from 1907-1909. Gilkey also "worked with Carl Purdy, who had charge of the horticultural gardens and the Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915".
References
- New York Botanic Garden guide with references
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Carl Purdy's biography
- American Iris Society
- Wikipedia
- Pacific Horticulture about Burbank mentions Purdy
- Burbank and Purdy from Burbank
- Wizards of the Gardens, Land of Sunshine
- Charles Howard Shinn wrote about Burbank and Purdy in Intensive Horticulture in California.)
- CNCo records, Pleasanton (IMG_7464, IMG_7521)
- Check Frank Morton Todd's PPIE books
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