. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 3. A. Vandervoort of not iiKirc than $200 for cacli ofTcnsc. Tlic bill also i)rovi(los that any {?itizcn may submit samjilcs to the departniont for tests or analysis, for which a foe of 25 cents may 1)0 charged. THIRTY YEARS IN CALIFORNIA. John Rodger's Rise. Jolin Bddgor, president of John Bodger & Sons Co., Los Angeles, Cal., is celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday year by touring the seed growing cen- ters of Europe. He will first visit his boyhood home, Narcissus Bulbs These bulbs are in fine condition; have been in cold storage since arr
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 3. A. Vandervoort of not iiKirc than $200 for cacli ofTcnsc. Tlic bill also i)rovi(los that any {?itizcn may submit samjilcs to the departniont for tests or analysis, for which a foe of 25 cents may 1)0 charged. THIRTY YEARS IN CALIFORNIA. John Rodger's Rise. Jolin Bddgor, president of John Bodger & Sons Co., Los Angeles, Cal., is celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday year by touring the seed growing cen- ters of Europe. He will first visit his boyhood home, Narcissus Bulbs These bulbs are in fine condition; have been in cold storage since arrival. $ per 1000 while they last. THE PARK FLORAL COMPANY 13336 Euclid Avenue CLEVELAND, OHIO in Somersetshire, England, whore he began his cancer as a florist, nurseryman and seedsman. For thirty years after liis early marriage lie catered to a steadily growing trade and a still more rapidly increasing family, until on the. John Bodgcr, John C Bodger and Walter Bodger. advice of a well known London seeds- man, who had visited San Francisco in the year ]880, he decided to dispose of his retail business in England and start life over again in California as a grower. The year 1891 found him established with his family in Ventura county, growing flower and vegetable seed on a scant acre of poor ground. For the first ten years the new enter- prise had a hard struggle for life. This is not strange, considering the fact that Mr. Bodger and his sons were handi- capped by scanty knowledge of Cali- fornia farming conditions, by adverse weather, and, last but not least, by in- sufficient funds. However, the whole family put in their best efforts, and Mr. Bodger steadfastly fixed his hopes on that success which his sanguine nature believed to be always just around the corner. Today his dreams have been abundantly realized—one might say literally a thousandfold—as the firm of which he is still an active member has expanded from a 1-acre plot to consid- erably over 1,000 acres of r
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