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From until his brother was a partner in the business. He was a pomologist, he ran commercial and test orchards for pears, apples, and plums. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America published by his brother Andrew was largely the work of Charles and he continued working on it and revised it many times. Sometime after , he sold the nursery to the Saul family, and it was operated under the name of The Highland Nurseries. The Saul family continued to specialize in fruits but listed many ornamental trees and roses.
He was the son of a German immigrant cabinet maker and opened his seed and florist store, Henry A. Dreer, Inc. Dreer saw the need for demonstration and experiment farms.
From , his nursery was on the estate of William Hamilton, known as The Woodlands. His six small greenhouses were at 35th Street for twenty-three years until when they were moved to three hundred acres at Riverton, New Jersey. He was a pioneer in introducing color printing to the trade in his bulb catalog for That catalog contained an illustration in six colors, printed from electros reproducing the original wood cuts.
He wrote frequently for The Saturday Evening Post. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and was treasurer from He died in Philadelphia, December 22, His son William F. Dreer carried on the business in Philadelphia and Riverton, New Jersey. The business was incorporated in He carried on the business of his father Henry A.
Dreer after his father s death in He made numerous trips to foreign countries to study growing methods and to establish relationships with foreign seedhouses. He was an active member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, treasurer from and from He died in Vermont, September 8, In , he apprenticed himself for four years to the leading nurseryman and florist in Stuttgart.
In , he set sail for America. He traveled to the home of relatives in Ohio, but stopped in Rochester. After spending the summer with his relatives in Ohio, he returned to Rochester to seek employment.
William A. The nursery was put up for sale, and in January, Ellwanger, their manager, offered to lease the nursery and buy the remaining stock. Ellwanger formed a partnership with Thomas Rogers, a mulberry tree salesman from the east. By May of Ellwanger bought out the interests of Rogers and joined with Patrick Barry, a more experienced nurseryman, who had newly arrived from Ireland. This new establishment was called Mount Hope Nursery.
Their first catalogs were issued in In December , Ellwanger went to Europe in order to increase the nursery s stock.
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He went to England, France, and Germany and collected buddings and graftings from different nurseries, and stuffed his bags with the catalogs and other publications of the leading horticulturists of the day. Shortly after his return the nursery issued a second and larger catalog where he had adopted the London Horticultural Society s method of listing plants and describing their features.
The fruit department was their specialty. Ellwanger married in and had four sons. His son William D. By , the seven original acres in the nursery of had grown to one hundred acres. In another five years it had grown to four hundred acres, and by there were six hundred and fifty acres. By , there were also nurseries in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio and Toronto. In , Mount Hope Nursery won a gold medal diploma at the Paris Exhibition for their display of varieties of pears.
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Ellwanger died on November 26, The Mount Hope Nursery closed in July M Boston, Massachusetts was a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and in designed and built an Italian garden in the first floor of the Horticultural Hall. Brother of John K. He was the president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society from He gave numerous lectures on his travels around the world. His brother was James F.
In he founded the D. The company merged with the California based seed company, C. The Ferry-Morse Seed Company became part of France s Groupe Limagrain, considered in to be the third largest seed company in the world. Ladies should cultivate flowers as an invigorating and inspiring out-door occupation. Many are pining and dying from monotony and depression, who might bury their cares by planting a few seeds Ferry in the Seed Annual.
The vegetable section began with a quote from Plutarch advising exercise through gardening. Out-door work Chromolithographs illustrated this catalog as well, and lithographs of the seed farm show different activities, hoeing, weeding cabbage, dinner, and harvesting. The field workers are almost all women with men supervising.
Ferry invented the commission box, a seed rack for retail display, and was the first to have brightly colored seed packets. He taught for three winters in a country school and worked part-time as a surveyor in Page County. It is said that as a five-year old, Henry was inspired by the Vick s Floral Guide , and gathered seed from his mother s garden and packaged them in homemade envelopes and sold them to his aunt. At age nine he began selling self-harvested seeds. He continued this business during his college years and the years spent as a teacher.
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In the s, he priced his own garden seed lower than Burpee and sold and distributed them from horseback around Shenandoah, Iowa. In he produced a four-page catalog with his own hand press. In , he founded and incorporated, Henry Field Seed Co. He moved into the mail-order business, constructed a seedhouse, and sent out a folksy catalog promoting Seeds that Yield are Sold by Field. In , the company became known as the Henry Field Co.
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He was the editor of Field s Seed Sense and a contributor to horticultural and agricultural publications. He died in Shenandoah, Iowa, Oct. Later the successor was called the Germain Fruit Company. The firm exported callas, freesias, amaryllis, cannas and other bulbous plants. In , the firm was exclusively in the seed business.
A catalog listed tree seeds including unusual species, many succulent plants, as well as flower seeds. In , the company combined with Aggeler and Musser Seed Company. He arrived in California in , and settled in Nevada City in He established his Barren Hill Nursery in In , this was thought to be the oldest continuously operating nursery in California. Gillet was interested primarily in deciduous fruit and nut trees. After the death of Gillet in , his successors offered many ornamentals. The catalog offered several conifers that appealed to customers in mountain areas. He went to Middlebury College and graduated from Amherst College in His business was called the Gregory Seed Business.
He sent Hubbard squash seeds all over the United States. In he purchased the Burbank potato that had just been developed by Luther Burbank. It was Burbank s first success at plant breeding done while he was a gardener in Massachusetts. Gregory had over acres in seed farms. He wrote and distributed many treatises on different agricultural subjects, and lectured extensively on agricultural and horticultural topics.
He died on February 20, He settled on a farm in the town of Gates, west of Rochester in Harris bought the Genesee Farmer from James Vick in and had a widely popular column called Walks and Talks on the Farm in which he made public the results of the work of his experimental and seed farm.
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In , Harris bought the acre farm in Gares and named it Moreton Farm. In , he opened the Harris Seed Co. He offered a page catalog free of charge. He sent out 30, copies. In , he built his first seed house, and by the mail-order business was so profitable that a postal station was established at the farm. When Harris died in , his son Selah took over the company.
By the end of the s, Moreton Farm was the largest of its kind of seed farm. When World War I began, Moreton s lack of dependence on European sources for seeds made it one of the top companies in the nation. In , the Joseph Harris Company bought the old Vick seed farm. Joseph Harris, the son of Selah became president of the company in Plant breeding was the company s primary focus.
In , Lafarge Coppee bought Harris Moran Seeds, and at that time it was considered the third largest North American producer of vegetable and flower seed.