Pacific Coast nurseryman, award-winning horticulturalist, and historian
By: Edward S. Carman ; with an introduction by Angel Guerzon. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1997. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Guerzon, Angel.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: Reiter, Victor.; Horticulturists -- California -- Interviews.; Horticulture -- California, Northern.; Nurseries (Horticulture) -- California -- Los Gatos.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Pacific Coast nurseryman, award winning horticulturalist, and historian; California horticulture oral history series.
Description: Carman history in the Los Gatos area, founding Carman's Nursery in 1937; Peninsula nursery history, businesses, impact of World War II; Ed and Jean Carman's nursery since 1946, the role of the family; successful introduction of the kiwi vine from New Zealand, 1968: Trevor Davies, shipping arrangements, the market, other imports, Rhodohypoxis; travel, photography, and English connections; wisteria, and Toichi Domoto; Victor Reiter and other northern California plantsmen, plant propagators; horticultural society affiliations: American Rock Garden Society, Western Horticultural Society, California Horticultural Society, Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, others; California Association of Nurserymen, awards and honors; active role in Los Gatos community; aspects of running a thriving nursery business and plant inventory.