California Seed Industry Treated as Big Business
California’s seed industry, valued around 30 million dollars and the nation’s largest, relies on costly hybrid seeds, precise handling, and heavy labor. Industry leaders like Gerald F. Burke note high costs, rapid planting windows, and ongoing research to improve yield, storage, and disease resistance across field and flower seeds.
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California
Gerald F. Burke
Riverside
Companisos
Burke
Council of California Growers
Handabok
Eugenia
University of California
University of California and Davis
James Harrington
Enhancing Home with Stone Fireplaces and Finishes
Home builders inquire about stone fireplace costs and installation. The Building Stone Institute explains stone types, finishes, and patterns from ashlar to uncoursed works. It notes stone facings are thin, easy to install, and affordable, with prices similar to brick and options like Limestone and Slate.
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Instituta
Lexington Avt
New York
N.Y
No.Win
Conifers Should Be Sprayed By Carl Angell MaAy
Conifers should be sprayed to combat browning and dry green worm damage. Advice covers apples, pears, plums and cherries with non toxic sprays, plus seed head removal for daffodils and tulips. Warns of lawn fungus from wet weather and suggests fungicide timing for peaches and verbena. Recommends Camellia petal blight treatment and ground petal cleanup with PN B solution.
Talk Slated On Bricking Paving At Berkeley Evening School
A talk by C. C. Warr of Digville at the Berkeley Evening School landscape gardening meeting will cover a simple mortared brick paving method for walks and patios. Warr will dry pack mortar then dampen with a special technique to form solid surfaces and demonstrate brick paving tools for do it yourself gardeners. Slides from a year-long Warr family world tour titled Scenes in English and Dutch wardens In bloom will be shown. Attendees meet at 2200 Grove St.
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C. C. Warr
Digville
Berkeley Evening School
Warr
Warrs
Pertons
Garden Clubs Calendar Listings Across the Bay Area
A dense diary of garden club meetings lists numerous groups and venues from Castro Valley to Oakland. Dates and times vary from dawn to evening, with gatherings at schools, community centers, and garden centers, featuring societies such as American Begonia, Fuchsia, Chrysanthemum, Iris, and Dahlia. Participation spans Alameda, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Oakland, Fremont, and Hayward, with several Vista Room events at Lakeside Park Garden Center and multiple neighborhood centers hosting sessions through the month.
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Peralta Branch
Mericae Fuchsia Society, & Puns
Lakeside Park Garden Center
Bellevue Avenue
Oakland
East Bay Bonsal Society
M. Sydney B. Mitchell
Iris Society
Vista Room
Restevue Avard
Rose Petal Jars Preserve Fragrance
Rose petals can be saved and made into potpourri jars for year round fragrance. The piece explains harvesting petals at dawn, drying on paper, layering with salt or silica, and blending fixatives like musk or orris root with optional botanicals. Keep jars tightly closed and shake periodically to maintain scent.
Area garden clubs schedule May events and tours
Garden clubs across the area plan May meetings in Lakeside Park Garden Center and Hayward homes plus tours of Carmel and Fort Ord beaches. Talks include fuchsia care by Mrs Linnore Carlsari and driftwood arrangements by Mrs Floyd Jerson. A Stinson Beach show and Eden Garden Club officer changes are noted along with plant sales and a Wilder Preserve dedication for Minnie Buhn.
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Eden Garden Ch
California Coast Range
Minnie Buhn
Garden Checklist for Quick Color Now
Garden readers can set out bedding plants including dwarf dahlias, medgolden varieties, alinas, katers, pelunica, alocks, and soapdragons. Choose varieties, mulch around transplants, keep soil cool and moist, pinch back new chrysanthemum after planting, and continue to pinch growth. Tomato and pepper plants are available for warm sunny spots.
Annuals For Color In Summer Glow In The Garden
Colorful annuals supply bright blooms throughout summer, filling borders around shrubs and perennials. Tall larkspur and giant marigolds, mid height stocks and snapdragons, and low fronting annuals like petunias and alyssum create constant color. Annuals also form bed islands, are great in their own plots, and edge paths marking borders with alyssum and ageratum as top choices.
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Gelor
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Calif
Miyorado
Hage Ad Union Chy
Hansen
A. Aden
Alameda County
By Carl Angell
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Garden Club of
Castro Valley
Adobe
San Miguel Avenue
Sant Lorca
Fim
Bowett Scout Cabin
San Jascenzo
Pasta Grote
Norbhern Calharia Canetlia Society
Claremont Juniorigh School
College and Shaffer Avenues
East Bay Dihlia Society
Lakeside Path Garden Center
Eden
American Vuehsia Society
Span
Markham
Krause Avenues
Fast Bay
American Begonia Society
Willard School
Ward Street
Telegraph Avenue
Gietes
Galiforna
East Day
Atdean Violet Society
Lakeside Slark
Bellayne
Ant
Eastlake Garden Club
Fem
Tard
Krause
Oaklawn
San Beandro Dahlia Sociery
Pam
MrKinley School
1Th Street
San Teandro
East Bay
Lakesh
Park Garden Center
Almoda County
R Pam
Cherryandd School
Witlow Avenue
Hayveard
Fremont Gamle
Mattos Road
Fremont
Glenmoor
Hao
Lakeside Bark Garden Center
Northern California Chrysanthemum Society
Pg&e
Bonanza Street
Walnut Creek
Sundar Gardeners
Eastbay
Lantern Park
Fruitvale Avenue
Alameda
W. Bau Leandro Garden Club
San Leandro
Estudliin Avenue
Oakland-East Bay
San Lorenzo Freviala Society
Boyum
Mesperian School
Drew Street
San Lorenzo
Americ Crm
Washington School
and Shattuck Avenue
Eden Garden Club
Trity Episcopal Church
1805 Hill Avenue
Hayward
By Dorothy Bayliss
Ray Lake
News of Area Garden Clubs
Peralla
Linnore Carlsari
Floyd Jerson
Carmel
Sirsa Association
Alontoroy Peninsula
Tor
August Quintella
Grove Way
Hassel
Ides Hall
Floyd Slutier
Alles Seaver
Eden Garden Cink
Mary Pene Fckl Morris
Ann Murder
Blanche Tormuist
Stinson Beach
San Loreno Village Garden Club
Bowers Reout Cabin
Pauses Grande
Charten Perry
Mento Park
Nature Conservancy
Elder Creek
Montefair Womens* Club
Mountain Blvd
Canyon Ranch
Beelhees Lagoon
Fast Bay Rose Society
Lakeside
Fremont Garden Club Ie
Gramuor School
Mattos Dr
Apel Fie Jrtmont
Chop
Castro Valley Village
First Wester Bank
Castro Valley Blvd
Santa Maria Avenue
Mmes
Katherine Peters
Vivan Macy
Virvie Hill
AL Holmes
Jonny Brown
C. WV. Dexbeinioy
Chib
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