California native plantsman
Subtitle: UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Tilden Botanic Garden
By: with an introduction by Walter Knight ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1990.
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1991
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Botanical Garden.; Regional Parks Botanic Garden (Berkeley, Calif.); Botanists -- California -- Interviews.; Native plant gardening -- California.
Other titles: California horticulture oral history series.
Description: Roderick discusses his childhood; Roderick family nursery, 1945- 1959; UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, California native plant area, 1960-1976; Tilden Park Botanic Garden, 1976-1982; California Native Plant Society; comments on rare and endangered species inventory.