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Early Fruit & Vegetable Seed Catalogs of Southern California: 1920 - 1929
January 01, 2010
In the 1920s, downtown Los Angeles was host to several seed and nursery stores including Aggeler & Musseler (620 S. Spring Street), Morris & Snow Seed Co. (439 S. Main Street), Theodore Payne (345 S. Main Street), and Germain's (326-330 S. Main Street). A little further out was Paul J. Howard's Flowerland (250 S. La Brea). Also featured below is Armstrong Nurseries (Ontario), Pioneer Nurseries (Monrovia), and Wagner Nurseries (Pasadena).
The seed and nursery companies offered a wide selection of vegetables and included many popular varieties of the time. Below you'll see several varieties of onions, avocados, melons and the giant Panama Rhubarb (right). Click on the thumbnails to see an enlarged photo.
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Aggeler & Musser (1920) |
Armstrong Nurseries (1921) |
Wagner Nurseries (1928) |
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Pioneer Nurseries (1924) |
Thomas Payne (1922) |
P.J. Howard's Flowerland (1926) |
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Aggeler & Musser (1929) |
Morris & Snow (1923) |
Aggeler & Musser (1927) |
To see more photos from this period, please view the Flickr slide show:
| Seed Catalogs - Home | 1888-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1945 | Avocados | Wartime | Aggeler & Musser | Germain’s | Bibliography |
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Early Fruit & Vegetable Seed Catalogs of Southern California: 1940 - 1945
January 01, 2010
Although Southern California had established itself as a citrus empire decades earlier, it was still known for this in the 1940s.
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Tuttle Bros. Nurseries (1944) |
| Paul J. Howard's Flowerland (1940s) |  |
These pages from Aggeler and Musser's 1943 catalog promote the many vitamins that vegetables offer.
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Click on the photos below to see more of the vegetables that were being offered in the 1940s.
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Aggeler & Musser (1944) |
Germain's (1945) |
Fraser's (1940s) |
P.J. Howard's Flowerland (1940s) |
View more photos on Flickr:
| Seed Catalogs - Home | 1888-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1945 | Avocados | Wartime | Aggeler & Musser | Germain’s | Bibliography |
Copyright: The Los Angeles County Arboretum makes no assertions as to ownership of any original copyrights to digitized images. However, these images are intended for Personal or Research use only. Any other kind of use, including, but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication in any medium or format, public exhibition, or use online or in a web site, may be subject to additional restrictions including but not limited to the copyrights held by parties other than the Arboretum. USERS ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying associated fees necessary for the proposed use.
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