Finding Aid for the Mildred Mathias Collection of Nursery Catalogs
LSC.1207
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Title: Mildred Mathias collection of nursery catalogs
Creator:
Mathias, Mildred E. (Mildred Esther), 1906-1995
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1207
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6.8 Linear Feet
(12 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-1988
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Collection consists of seed and flower catalogs from nurseries in California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nurseries (Horticulture)--California--Archival resources.
Nursery stock--California.
Sales catalogues.
Box 1, Folder 1
Abbey Garden, Santa Barbara & Carpinteria.
1974, 1976.
General
Specialty: Cacti and succulents.
Box 1, Folder 1
Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, Los Angeles.
undated
Scope and Contents
Bulletins 15, 23, 24.
General
Specialty: Seeds, bulbs, cuttings.
Box 8, Folder 6
Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, Los Angeles.
1934, 1944, Autumn 1944,
1945, Autumn 1945.
Box 8, Folder 7
Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, Los Angeles.
Autumn 1946, Autumn 1947,
1948, 1949, 1950-1951.
Box 13, Folder 1
Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, Los Angeles.
undated
Box 1, Folder 3
American Plant Growers, Incorporated, Carson.
1974.
Scope and Contents
Price list.
General
Specialty: Bedding plants.
Box 1, Folder 4
Bob Anderson, Los Angeles.
1951-1952, 1962-1963,
undated
General
Specialty: Flower bulbs.
Box 12, Folder 1
Walter Anderson Nursery, Los Angeles[?]
undated
Box 1, Folder 5
Armacost & Royston, West Los Angeles.
1948, 1954, 1958, 1959,
undated
Scope and Contents
Supplemental catalogs and announcements.
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 8, Folder 8
Armacost & Royston, West Los Angeles. (2 catalogs).
undated
Box 8, Folder 9
Armacost & Royston, West Los Angeles.
Spring 1950
Spring 1951,
1956.
Scope and Contents
- [Spring 1950] - 2 copies
(both variants).
- Spring 1951, 1956.
Box 8, Folder 10
Armacost & Royston, West Los Angeles. [], [] - 2 copies, [] - 2
copies.
1962
1964
1965
Box 8, Folder 11
Armacost & Royston, West Los Angeles.
1967
Winter 1967-Spring
1969
1968-1969].
1970.
1972
1973-1974
Scope and Contents
- [1967]
- [Winter 1967-Spring
1969]
- [1968-1969].
- 1970.
- 1972 (2 copies).
- 1973-1974 (2 copies).
Box 1, Folder 6
Armstrong Nurseries, Incorporated, Ontario.
1936, undated
Scope and Contents
Rose list.
General
Specialty: Roses.
Box 10, Folder 1
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario. -Quarter Century Catalog.
1914
1919, 1923, 1925.
Box 10, Folder 2
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario.
1926-1928
1929.
Scope and Contents
- 1926-1928 (2 copies).
- 1929.
Box 10, Folder 3
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario. (2 copies).
1930
1931, 1932.
Box 10, Folder 4
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario. - with index laid in.
1933, 1934, 1935
1936.
Box 10, Folder 5
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario.
1937, 1939-1941,
1943.
Box 10, Folder 6
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario.
1944, Fall 1944, 1945, Fall
1945.
Box 11, Folder 1
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario.
1947-1948, 1951, 1952,
1954.
Box 11, Folder 2
Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario.
Fall 1956-Spring 1957, Fall
1958-Spring 1959, 1961, 1962, 1972
1971-1972, 1974,
1974-1975
1977.
Scope and Contents
- Fall 1956-Spring 1957, Fall 1958-Spring
1959, 1961, 1962, 1972 - roses.
- 1971-1972, 1974, 1974-1975 -
rose and garden catalog (2 copies).
- 1977.
Box 1, Folder 7
Baake Nursery, West Los Angeles.
1942.
General
Specialty: Orchids, fuchsias, begonias.
Box 1, Folder 8
Ballay Dahlia Gardens, Los Altos.
1927.
Box 1, Folder 9
Beahm Gardens, East Pasadena.
1940, undated
General
Specialty: Epiphyllums, phyllocactus, phyllocereus.
Box 12, Folder 2
Bee Line Nursery, San Dimas.
1958.
Box 1, Folder 10
Better Gardens, San Marino.
1948, 1952.
General
Specialty: Seeds, bulbs.
Box 1, Folder 11
Blanchard Chrysanthemum Gardens, Arcadia.
1942.
Box 1, Folder 12
Bodger Seeds, Limited, El Monte.
1942-1943.
General
Specialty: Wholesale flower seeds.
Box 1, Folder 13
B.O. Brachey & Company, Santa Ana.
1963, 1966.
General
Specialty: Cattleyas.
Box 1, Folder 14
Braemar Orchids, Santa Barbara. - 1 catalog for meristems, 1 catalog for
cybidiums.
1966, 1967
1966-1967.
Box 1, Folder 15
Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa.
1911, 1916-1917, 1917,
1927[?].
General
Specialty: Seeds, fruits, hybrids.
From California Ephemera Collection.
Box 1, Folder 16
Burkard Nurseries Incorporated, Pasadena.
1971.
Scope and Contents
Bulb catalog.
Box 1, Folder 17
California Nursery Company, Niles.
1924, 1926, 1927, 1929,
1930.
General
Specialty: Ornamental & fruit trees, roses, buds, scions & cuttings, general
garden plants.
Box 1, Folder 18
California Roses, Incorporated, Puente.
1939-1941, 1947-1948,
1948-1949.
General
Specialty: Roses.
Box 8, Folder 1
Campbell Seed Store, Pasadena.
1943-1948.
Box 12, Folder 3
Canyon Garden, Santa Monica. Mrs. Alan Denney.
1965.
General
Specialty: Irises, daylilies.
Box 1, Folder 19
Roy Carter, Seedsman, San Fernando.
1960, 1961, 1963, 1964,
1976.
General
Specialty: Shrubs, trees, flower seeds, growers' supplies.
Box 1, Folder 20
Carter's Camellia Gardens, Monterey Park.
1939-1940,
1945-1946.
Box 1, Folder 21
Charles' Orchid Acre, Costa Mesa.
undated
Box 1, Folder 22
L.E. Cooke, San Gabriel.
1958-1959,
1964-1965.
General
Specialty: Deciduous shade trees, shrubs, fruit trees.
Box 1, Folder 23
Coolidge Rare Plants, Pasadena.
1914, 1941, 1958-1959,
undated
Box 1, Folder 24
Court of Iris, Downey / Bellflower.
1955, 1956.
Box 1, Folder 25
Cox's Epiphyllum Nursery, Encinitas.
1974.
Box 1, Folder 26
Tom Craig, Escondido.
1952, 1953, 1956.
General
Specialty: Irises and daylilies.
Box 2, Folder 1
Dale Orchids, Inglewood.
1967.
Box 2, Folder 2
Davids & Royston Bulb Company, Incorporated, Gardena.
1973-1977.
Box 2, Folder 3
Deigaard Nurseries, Monrovia.
1954, 1959, 1960.
General
Specialty: Conifers.
Box 2, Folder 4
Del Amo Nurseries, Compton. Founded by Dr. Gregorio del Amo in
1936 March 1, 1936 November
14, 1940 January, 1959, 1960-1961.
1921.
Box 2, Folder 6
Toichi Domoto Nursery, Hayward.
1979.
General
Specialty: Camellias.
Box 2, Folder 7
Dorn Orchid Range, Incorporated, Woodland Hills.
1969.
Box 12, Folder 4
Dos Pueblos Orchid Company, Goleta.
1957-1965[?].
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 2, Folder 8
Easthill Orchids, Signal Hill.
1958.
Box 2, Folder 9
Evans & Reeves Nurseries, Santa Monica & Los Angeles.
1934, 1940, 1940-1941,
1946-1948, undated
Box 8, Folder 2
Evans & Reeves Nurseries.
The
Grapevine
, Santa Monica & Los Angeles.
May [1950]-February
1954
Box 2, Folder 10
Fancher Creek Nurseries, Fresno.
1918, 1919,
1923-1924.
Box 2, Folder 11
Far Horizons, La Cafiada.
1960.
General
Specialty: Rare plants.
Box 2, Folder 12
Feader Nurseries, San Fernando.
1964-1965.
Box 2, Folder 13
Felsing's Rare Carnation Gardens, North Hollywood.
1941-1945, 1948.
Box 2, Folder 14
Ferry Morse Seed Company, San Francisco. [ 80 year history.
1936].
Box 2, Folder 15
Figueroa St. Nursery, Los Angeles.
1910.
General
Specialty: Japanese, European and home plants.
Box 2, Folder 5
Foster Iris, Sierra Madre & Vista.
1973.
General
Specialty: Irises.
Box 2, Folder 16
Arthur Freed orchids, Malibu. With sale notices
1971, 1972, 1975.
1965, 1967, 1968.
Box 2, Folder 17
Fuchsia-LA Nursery, Long Beach. Roy A. Walker & C.C. (Buddy) Jones,
proprietors. Business card only.
undated
Box 2, Folder 18
Paul Gaines Nursery, San Dimas.
1959 March.
General
Specialty: Specimen trees and shrubs.
Box 2, Folder 20
Howard E. Gates Famous Cactus Gardens, Anaheim.
1936.
Box 2, Folder 21
Germain's, Los Angeles. Sample of color seed packet only and undated
catalog.
undated
General
Specialty: Seeds & plants.
Box 8, Folder 3
Germain's, Los Angeles. - wholesale prices. - seeds & plants. - wholesale
prices. - seeds & plants (2 copies). - bulbs. - bulbs.
1925, Autumn 1943,
1944
1944
1945
1945
Fall 1944/Spring
1945
Fall 1947/Spring
1948
Box 8, Folder 4
Germain's, Los Angeles. - wholesale prices.
Autumn 1945, Fall 1946,
Spring 1947, 1948
Box 8, Folder 5
Germain's, Los Angeles.
1950.
Box 12, Folder 6
Golden West Gladiolus Growers, Downey.
1947-1948 &
undated
General
Specialty: Gladiolus.
Box 2, Folder 22
Goldsmith Seeds, Incorporated, Gilroy. Color brochures.
undated
Box 2, Folder 19
Goodes Seed Store, Pasadena.
undated
Box 2, Folder 23
Ray Googins, San Fernando.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 12, Folder 16
Grant, Adele Lewis. Common cone-bearing trees in Southern California: Los
Angeles. Los Angeles City Teachers' Institute: Natural science lecture.
27 October 1937.
Box 12, Folder 17
Grant, Adele Lewis. Common native broad-leaved trees, Los Angeles. Los
Angeles City Teachers' Institute: Natural science lecture.
3 November 1937.
Box 12, Folder 18
Grant, Adele Lewis ...Street trees in Los Angeles .., Los Angeles. Los
Angeles City Teachers' Institute.
1939.
Box 2, Folder 24
Greenoaks, Arcadia & Los Angeles. Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Menninger,
owners.
1963.
General
Specialty: Cymbidiums, shade plants.
Box 2, Folder 25
Gubler Orchids, Landers. [
1981-1982].
Box 2, Folder 26
Hagen Nursery, Arcadia.
undated
General
Specialty: Trees.
Box 2, Folder 27
Kurt Hildebrand, North Hollywood. Card only.
1959.
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 2, Folder 28
Hines Wholesale Nurseries, San Gabriel/Santa Ana.
1959.
Box 2, Folder 29
L.B. Hodges Nursery, Long Beach.
undated
Box 2, Folder 30
Cecil Houdyshel, La Verne.
1940 Spring, 1940 Fall, 1941
Fall (2), 1942 Spring, 1942 Fall-1943 Spring, 1945 Fall (2), 1946 Fall.
General
Specialty: Bulbs.
Box 11, Folder 3
Paul J. Howard's Flowerland, Los Angeles.
1924-1925, 1941,
1942.
General
Also known as Paul J. Howard's Horticultural Establishment.
Box 11, Folder 4
Paul J. Howard's Flowerland, Los Angeles. (2 copies).
1942
1942-1943.
Box 11, Folder 5
Paul J. Howard's Flowerland, Los Angeles.
[1932 or 1944], [1945], 1947
Spring, 1947, [1948], 1950.
Box 2, Folder 31
Howard & Smith, Montebello. Letter only.
1943.
General
Specialty: Flower seeds, plants, bulbs.
Box 13, Folder 2
Howard & Smith, Montebello.
1940 Spring,
1949.
Box 2, Folder 32
Paul J. Howard's Horticultural Establishment, Los Angeles. Specialty
catalogs.
1935, 1939, 1940,
undated
Box 2, Folder 33
Spencer M. Howard, North Hollywood.
1967.
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 3, Folder 1
C.R. Hulen's Phalaenopsis Farm, Lake View Terrace.
undated
Box 3, Folder 2
Hummel's Exotic Gardens, Carlsbad.
1960.
General
Specialty: Novelty plants.
Box 3, Folder 3
Hyperion Nursery, Los Angeles.
1952, 1954.
Box 3, Folder 4
Ilsley Orchids, Los Angeles.
1962-1964.
Box 3, Folder 5
International orchids, Palm Springs.
1959-1960.
Box 3, Folder 6
Irises for Your Garden, S.S. Berry, Redlands. [
1932].
Box 3, Folder 7
Johnson & Musser Seed Company, Los Angeles.
1906.
Box 3, Folder 8
Johnson Nursery, La Mesa.
1959.
Box 3, Folder 9
K.M. Nursery, Gardena.
1958-1959.
Box 3, Folder 10
R.F. Kado, Cactus Specialist, Santa Monica.
1936[?].
Box 3, Folder 11
Keeline-Wilson Nurseries, Brea.
1958-1959.
General
Specialty: Landscape plants, shade trees.
Box 3, Folder 12
Kramer Brothers Nurseries, Ontario.
1945-1948.
General
Specialty: Chrysanthemums, camellias, azaleas, geraniums.
Box 3, Folder 13
La Tuna Nursery, Sun Valley.
undated
General
Specialty: California natives.
Box 3, Folder 14
Laguna Nursery and Oriental Art Shop, Laguna Beach.
1966.
Box 3, Folder 15
Lamanda Park Florist, East Pasadena.
1942.
Box 3, Folder 16
Landamar Orchids, Tarzana.
1965.
Box 3, Folder 17
Los Feliz Nursery, Hollywood.
undated
Box 3, Folder 18
Lyon's Irisland, Van Nuys.
1953, 1956.
Box 3, Folder 19
Marsh's Nursery, Pasadena.
undated
Box 9, Folder 1
Marsh's Nursery, Pasadena. (mostly roses). (2 copies).
undated
Fall 1943-Spring 1944, Fall
1944-Spring 1945, Fall 1945-Spring 1946
Box 9, Folder 2
Marsh's Nursery, Pasadena. (2 copies). (2 copies). - 16th anniversary
catalog.
Fall 1946-Spring
1947
Fall 1947-Spring
1948
Fall 1948-Spring
1949
Box 9, Folder 3
Marsh's Nursery, Pasadena. - 16th anniversary catalog. (2
copies).
Fall 1948-Spring
1945
1952
1953.
Box 13, Folder 3
Marsh's Nursery, Los Angeles. 15th anniversary.
undated
Box 3, Folder 20
L.B. Merrick, Whittier.
1939.
Box 3, Folder 21
Miliken Iris Gardens, Pasadena.
1938, 1955,
undated
Box 3, Folder 22
Miller Collection, Malibu.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 3, Folder 23
Mission Nurseries, San Gabriel.
1940.
Box 3, Folder 24
Monrovia Nursery Company, Monrovia.
1948, 1948-1949, 1949
January, 1949 August, 1953-1954, 1957-1958, 1958-1959, 1958 February, 1960 December,
1973, 1979.
Box 3, Folder 25
Montarioso Nursery, Santa Barbara. C. Fenzi Francheschi,
proprietor.
1914.
Box 3, Folder 26
Moore's Nursery, Inglewood.
1940.
Box 3, Folder 27
Mordigan Evergreen Nurseries, San Fernando.
1948.
Box 3, Folder 28
Morris & Snow Seed Company, Los Angeles.
undated
Box 3, Folder 29
Northridge Gardens, Northridge.
1993.
General
Specialty: Cacti and succulents.
Box 3, Folder 30
Nuccio's Nurseries, Altadena.
1970-1971, 1975-1976,
undated
General
Specialty: Camellias and azaleas.
Box 4, Folder 1
Oakhurst Gardens, Arcadia. Card only.
undated
Box 9, Folder 4
Oakhurst Gardens, Arcadia. (2 copies).
1940-1944, 1946
1950.
Box 9, Folder 5
Oakhurst Gardens, Arcadia. (2 copies).
1951, 1952
1954-1957, 1959, 1960,
1962.
Box 4, Folder 2
Olle Olsson Nursery, Incorporated, Monrovia.
1959.
Box 4, Folder 3
Orchid House, Temple City.
1954.
Box 12, Folder 7
Orchid House, San Luis Obispo.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 12, Folder 8
Orchid Imports, North Hollywood. Orchid Imports, American agent for Universal
Bulb & Plant Nurseries, West Bengal, India.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 4, Folder 4
Orpet Nursery, Santa Barbara.
1940, 1941.
General
Specialty: Bulbs.
Box 4, Folder 5
Orvor Orchids, El Monte.
1954.
Box 4, Folder 6
Pacific Guano Company, Los Angeles.
ca.
1930s-1950s[?].
General
Specialty: Fertilizers.
Box 4, Folder 7
Theodore Payne Nursery, Los Angeles.
1939 &
undated
General
Specialty: California natives.
Box 11, Folder 6
Theodore Payne Nursery, Los Angeles.
1916
1917, 1924
1925, 1928, 1930,
1930-1931
Scope and Contents
- 1916 - California wild flower
seeds.
- 1917, 1924 - bulbs &
flower seeds.
- 1925, 1928, 1930, 1930-1931 -
bulbs & flower seeds.
General
Specialty: California native plants.
Box 11, Folder 7
Theodore Payne Nursery, Los Angeles.
1937
December 1939
1941
1941
Fall 1947-Spring
1948
Fall 1947-Spring
1948
Fall 1949-Spring
1950
1953
Scope and Contents
- [1937] - California
wildflower seeds (2 copies, 1 price list).
- December 1939 - price list
for California native trees, shrubs & vines.
- [1941] - wildflower
seeds.
- [1941] - trees, shrubs,
perennials.
- Fall 1945-Spring 1946 - California wildflower seeds, native plants.
- Fall 1947-Spring 1948 -
California wildflower seeds & native plants.
- Fall 1947-Spring 1948 -
California wildflower seeds & native plants.
- Fall 1949-Spring 1950 -
California wildflower seeds & native plants.
- 1953 - California wildflower
seeds & native plants (2 copies).
Box 4, Folder 8
Perry's Plants, Incorporated, Montebello.
1962, 1965.
Box 9, Folder 6
Pioneer Nursery, Monrovia. - price list. - catalogue.
[191_], October
1914
October 1914
[1923], [1924], [1925],
[1926], 1927.
Box 4, Folder 9
Plaza Nursery & Flower Shop, Buena Park.
1973.
undated
General
Specialty: Bromeliads.
Box 4, Folder 10
R.W. Poindexter, Compton.
1941.
General
Specialty: Epiphyllums.
Box 12, Folder 9
Pomona Wholesale Nursery, Pomona.
1956 July.
Box 4, Folder 11
Pooley's Flowers, Pomona.
undated
Box 4, Folder 12
Las Positas, Santa Barbara.
1946, 1947.
General
Specialty: Bulbs.
Box 4, Folder 13
Carl Purdy, Ukiah.
1941-1942,
1950-1951.
General
Specialty: California and other western natives.
Box 4, Folder 14
Rainbow Hybridizing Gardens, Placerville. Lloyd Austin, owner.
1954.
General
Specialty: Irises.
Box 4, Folder 15
El Rancho Rinconada, Ojai.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 4, Folder 16
Ransom Seed Company, San Gabriel.
1946.
Box 4, Folder 17
Rapella Orchid, Hawthorne.
ca. 1965[?].
Box 4, Folder 18
Rheinfrank & Associates, Los Angeles.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 2, Folder 5
Richard Diener, Oxnard.
1934.
Box 4, Folder 19
Rinconada Orchids, Costa Mesa.
1957, undated
Box 4, Folder 20
Alfred W. Roberts, Los Angeles.
1947-1948.
General
Specialty: Subtropical gardens.
Box 4, Folder 21
Rosecroft Begonia Gardens, Point Lorna. Alfred D. and Annie C. Robinson,
proprietors.
undated
Box 4, Folder 23
Rosedale's Nurseries, Monrovia.
1945, 1946 and
undated
Box 4, Folder 22
Roses of Yesterday and Today - Will Tillotson's Roses,
Watsonville.
1959, 1964, 1965,
1966.
Box 4, Folder 24
Ross Sprinkler Company, Pasadena.
1930s-1950s
(ca.).
Box 4, Folder 25
Roughstone Gardens, West Los Angeles. Card only. Owned by N.S.
Rivers.
undated
Box 13, Folder 4
Roy F. Wilcox & Company, Montebello.
December 1944.
General
Specialty: Greenhouse & decorative plants.
Box 4, Folder 26
Edward H. Rust Nurseries, Pasadena.
1939, 1942.
Box 4, Folder 27
San Gabriel Nursery, San Gabriel.
1957-1958.
Box 4, Folder 28
Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, Santa Barbara.
1976-1977.
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 12, Folder 10
Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, Santa Barbara & Goleta.
1967, 1976-77 &
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 4, Folder 29
Sarver Nursery Company, San Marcos.
undated
General
Specialty: Azaleas.
Box 4, Folder 30
Select Nurseries Incorporated, Brea. (2 copies).
1959
1965.
Box 4, Folder 31
Sequoia Nursery, Visalia.
1971 and undated
General
Specialty: Miniature roses.
Box 4, Folder 1
Miss K.O. Sessions Nursery, Pacific Beach.
undated
Box 12, Folder 11
Shennan Orchid Gardens, Glendora.
1952-1957[?].
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 5, Folder 1
Sierra Madre Research Institute - Embree Flowers, Sierra Madre.
undated
General
Specialty: Ecuadorian orchids.
Box 5, Folder 2
Singer's Growing Things, Reseda. (2 copies).
1975
General
Specialty: Xerophytic plants.
Box 5, Folder 3
Mrs. Marion Snell, Van Nuys.
undated
General
Specialty: Liliun Philippinense Forrnosanum.
Box 12, Folder 12
Southern California Native Seeds, San Diego. Elsie W. Cisler,
collector-distributor.
1948-1949, 1949,
1953.
General
Specialty: California natives.
Box 5, Folder 4-6
Fred A. Stewart (3 folders), San Gabriel.
ca. 1959-1980[?]
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 5, Folder 7
Sunnyslope 'Mum Gardens, San Gabriel. (cover only).
1940, 1942
1945, 1947, 1948,
1952.
Box 5, Folder 8
Syllmar Gardens, San Fernando. (2 copies).
1948
General
Specialty: Irises and daylilies.
Box 5, Folder 9
Walter Tauer, North Hollywood. Letter to Mildred Mathias
re Philodendron pertusum.
1959 April 1.
Box 5, Folder 10
Tetley Nurseries, Corona.
1958, 1960,
undated
General
Specialty: Palms.
Box 5, Folder 11
Tetley Nurseries, Riverside. Also located in Yuma, Arizona.
1932[?].
General
Specialty: Citrus and deciduous trees.
Box 5, Folder 12
Toy's Orchids, Gardena.
1962, 1964,
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 5, Folder 13
Tuttle Brothers Nurseries, Pasadena.
1947.
Box 9, Folder 7
Tuttle Brothers Nurseries, Pasadena. - wholesale price list. -
camellias.
1944, 15 September
1946
1946, 1947,
1946-1947
Box 9, Folder 8
Tuttle Brothers Nurseries, Pasadena. - wholesale list. - retail list. -
camellias.
October 1947
1947-1948
1947-1948
1947, 1948, 1949.
Box 9, Folder 9
Tuttle Brothers Nurseries, Pasadena. - camellias. - camellias.
1948, 1949
1950, 1950
Box 5, Folder 14
Carl C. Tyler Gardens, Van Nuys.
1939-1940,
1940-1941.
General
Specialty: Bulbs, daylilies.
Box 5, Folder 15
Valhaven Orchids, Encino.
undated
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 5, Folder 16
Peter Valinga, Burlingame.
Spring 1947.
General
Specialty: Bulbs.
Box 5, Folder 17
Valley Garden Supply, North Hollywood.
1946-1949,
undated
Box 5, Folder 18
Van Ness Water Gardens, Upland.
1966, 1973.
General
Specialty: Water lilies.
Box 6, Folder 1
Velco's Bromeliad Nursery, Marina Del Rey.
1975.
General
Specialty: Bromeliads.
Box 6, Folder 2
Ventura Epiphyllum Gardens, Ventura. Operated by Mrs. W.D.
Monmonier.
1940, 1941.
Box 6, Folder 3
Vetterle & Reinelt, Capitola.
1941.
General
Specialty: Hybrids.
Box 6, Folder 5
West Los Angeles Nursery, Los Angeles (Brentwood Heights).
undated
General
Specialty: Pelargoniums, geraniums.
Box 6, Folder 6
Western Seed Company, Los Angeles.
undated
Box 6, Folder 7
Westernberger of Los Angeles, San Fernando.
1968[?].
General
Specialty: Orchids.
Box 6, Folder 13
Wheeler Gardens, San Fernando.
undated
Box 6, Folder 4
Roy F. Wilcox & Company, Montebello.
undated
General
Specialty: Dish gardens.
Box 6, Folder 8
Wilhite Nursery, Glendora. Established 1907, Chester L. Wilhite.
1946[?], &
undated
General
Specialty: Citrus and avocado trees.
Box 6, Folder 9
Williams & Macpherson, Encinitas.
undated
General
Specialty: Rare Subtropicals.
Box 6, Folder 10
Wilson Fuchsia Gardens, Santa Monica & Malibu.
1959-1960.
General
Specialty: Fuchsias.
Box 6, Folder 11
Winsel-Gibbs Seed Company, Los Angeles.
1928, 1936,
undated
General
Specialty: Bulbs, seeds.
Box 6, Folder 16
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont.
1973 &
undated
Box 6, Folder 17
Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens, Santa Barbara.
1939 &
undated
Box 12, Folder 14
Fertilizers, insecticides, California. Advertising brochures.
v.d.
General
SEE ALSO: Pacific Guano Company, Los Angeles.
Box 12, Folder 15
Gardening equipment, accessories, fencing lighting, California. Advertising
brochures.
v.d.
General
SEE ALSO: Ross Sprinkler Company, Pasadena.
Box 7, Folder 3
Garden catalogs, Europe.
1979, 1988.
Box 13, Folder 5
Garden catalogs, United States. Gurney's.
1982.
Box 7, Folders 1-2
Garden catalogs, United States.
1973-1985.
Box 6, Folders 12-13
Miscellaneous publications, v.p.
v.d.
Box 6, Folders 14-15
Plant & flower shows, societies, auctions, v.p.
v.d.