Lawyers, Inc.
Subtitle: partners in plant pathology, horticulture, and marriage
By: Adele and Lewis Lawyer ; with introductions by Olive Rice Waters, Richard G. Landis and Robert D. Raabe ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1989.
Contributors: Lawyer, Lewis, 1907-; Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1991
Subjects: Del Monte Corporation -- History -- Sources.; Horticulturists -- California -- Interviews.; Plant pathologists -- California -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: California horticulture oral history series.
Description: The Lawyers discuss their childhoods; schooling; mentors in plant pathology at UC Berkeley (1934); Calpak (Del Monte Corp.) peach crop; Wheatland, Calif. Armillaria problem; research on asparagus, hydroponic tomatoes; Del Monte peas; yield problem, seed treatment, diseases, selection and breeding; corporate vs academic career; Lawyers' garden: sweet peas, daffodils, poppies, and hybridizing Pacific Coast native iris; California horticultural organizations.