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Early Fruit & Vegetable Seed Catalogs of Southern California: Bibliography

January 01, 2010

Below are resources that were cited or researched for this project:

 

California State Agricultural Society. Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society. Sacramento: G.H. Springer, 1894.

McGroaty, John Steven. Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea: with Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement, Volume 3. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921. (Available on Google Books)

Padilla, Victoria. Southern California Gardens: An Illustrated History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. (Available at the Los Angeles County Arboretum Library)

Roske, Ralph J. Everyman’s Eden. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1968. (Available at the Los Angeles County Arboretum Library)

Sackman, Douglas C. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Sheddon, Thomas. Learn to Love the Avocado. 1928

 

List of companies featured in this project (and on Flickr):

Aggeler & Musser, Los Angeles

Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario

Diegaard Nurseries, Monrovia

Richard Diener Nursery, Oxnard

Fraser's, Pasadena

Germain Seed & Plant Company, Los Angeles

Harris Seed Company, San Diego

Hobbs-Gregg Nurseries, San Dimas

Paul J. Howard's Flowerland, Los Angeles

Knott's Berry Place, Buena Park

Morris & Snow Seed Compnay, Los Angeles

Newbery-Sherlock Avocado Nurseries, Pasadena

Orcutt Seed & Plant Company, San Diego

Pasadena Nursery, Pasadena

Theodore Payne Seedsman & Nurseryman, Los Angeles

Peddycord's, Pasadena

Pioneer Nursery, Monrovia

R. M. Teague Nurseries, Reseda

Tuttle Brothers Nurseries, Pasadena

Wagner Nurseries, Pasadena

Winsel's, Los Angeles

| Seed Catalogs - Home | 1888-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1945 | Avocados | Wartime | Aggeler & Musser | Germain’s | Bibliography |

 

 

Plants sorted by family

January 01, 2010

News from the Library

Here you can watch slideshows of images from specific plant familys. Click on the slideshow to see the images in full size.

Amaryllidaceae family

Alstroemeriaceae family

Asteraceae family


Fabaceae family

Grossulariaceae family

Haemodoraceae family

Iridaceae family

Malvaceae family

Onagraceae family

Proteaceae family

Rhamnaceae family

Solanaceae family

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