Rob Brokaw is the owner of Brokaw Nursery, Inc. and can trace his lineage all the way back to Harold Brokaw, the Whittier nurseryman who propagated the Hass Avocado in 1935. (californiaavocado.com)
Hass patented the resulting tree in 1935 — the first U.S. patent on a tree — and made a contract with Whittier nurseryman Harold Brokaw to grow and distribute the trees produced by the seeds of the «mother tree.» (fieryfoodscentral.com)
«Most coast redwoods and other trees don't live to be a thousand years old, but some live to be 2,000 or more and we don't know why,» says David Milarch, lifelong nurseryman who co-founded the Champion Tree Project in 1994, which became Archangel 14 years later. (scientificamerican.com)