Sentences with word «nurseryman»

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.

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.»

«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.

Stern's development was followed by that of nurseryman Eric Smith, and then Helen Ballard, known particularly for her rounded - flower hybrids bred using material she collected in the wild, and both have given their names to new hybrids.

She brought home some bulbs to Philadelphia and a nurseryman called W.Harris fostered its popularity.

Board members have been weighing two proposals from potential lessees — one from a nurseryman who wants to grow native grasses and the other from members of the Principi family who proposed growing wine grapes there.

According to the nurseryman selling the trees, one hectare will yield about 12,000 litres annually.

I was dating a nurseryman at the time and we visited some nurseries and tree farms and I was dazzled with those too, your growing season, the nearby Wilhamette Valley (spelling is wrong!)