English garden history, western gardening, and creating and editing Pacific horticulture
By: W. George Waters ; with an introduction by Susan M. Smith. Interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Waters, Olive Rice.; California Horticultural Society.; Pacific Horticultural Foundation (U.S.); Pacific horticulture.; California horticultural journal.; Horticulturists -- California -- Interviews.; Horticulture -- California -- Periodicals.; Horticulture -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Gardening -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: California horticulture oral history series.
Description: Boyhood in wartime London, conscientious objector status, alternative service jobs; research work at Kodak, Ltd., 1954-1972, bicycling; British Garden History Society activities, programs, horticultural groups, status; Waters's gardens in England; marriage, and move to Berkeley, CA; connecting with California Horticultural Society, founding of Pacific Horticultural Foundation, decision to revamp California Horticultural Journal: journal format committee, financing, supporters, advertisers, distribution; discussion of Waters's editorial stance, book reviews, photography, Mediterranean gardens, working with authors; distinctive Bay Area gardens, gardeners, and Lester Hawkins, Marge Hayakawa, others. Appendices include an autobiographical statement by Olive Rice Waters; and letters to authors.