Profiles
included in the book Sending Flowers to America

Amling Brothers / Amling Family

Blue Hills (Frank & Asai Nakamura)

Brevidoro Lilac Ranch (Christopher Colombo Brevidoro)

Buford W. Hall Company (Buford, Johnnie, Warren, Art Smith, Royce Chezum)

Delta Floral Distributors / Defterios Family

Dos Pueblos Orchid Company (Samuel Mosher and Kermit Hernlund)

Edmund's Wholesale Flowers (Eddie Battistessa, Brad Brown and Danny Temkin)

Engert, Edgar (Paul Ecke Ranch)

Floral Supply Syndicate (Pacific Coast Commercial Ribbon Company) (Sidney Adler)

Franciosi Brothers (Guiseppe and Alice family, Angelo Tassano)

Fred C. King Wholesale Florist (Russell Eaton)

G. A. Berlin Company (George A Berlin, Elmer Fisher, John Frazee)

Gandolfo, Nick, Wholesalers

Ghigo Greens (family of Giovanni and Maria Ghigo)

Gorini Brothers (family of Guiseppe and Aurelia Gorini)

Groen Rose Company (C. J. Groen, Ross Nielsen)

Hernlund, Kermit

Hollandia Flowers (Art and Magda Overgaag)

Johnson, Bert, Wholesaler (also see: Pearson)

Karavas Family (John Karavas family and the offspring of Michael and Joyia Stamatelatos/Stamis)

Lewis Gardens (Hubert Lewis)

Los Angeles Evergreen Company (John Rainero, Nick Gandolfo, Giovanni Mellano)

Lugaro Family (Agostina and Jack Lugaro)

Mayesh Wholesale Flowers (Sol and Jack Mayesh, Joe Mayesh, Roy Dahlson family)

Mellano & Company (Giovanni and Maria Mellano family and Battista and Rosemary Castellano family)

Montebello Flower Families (Gage, Goto, Groen, Kuwahara, Mori, Nomura, Polder, Prechtl, Smith, Vander Bruggen, Wilcox)

Mosher, Samuel

Moskatels (Leon Moskatel, Sam Applebaum)

Noonan, John (and Lewis Noonan, E.G. Thornton, Donald Briggs)

Norman Seed Company (Harold Norman)

Paul Ecke Ranch

Pearson Wholesale Flowers (E.H. Pearson, Bert Johnson)

Prechtl Family (Gebhard, Hardwig/Harvey, Jon)

Soules Gladiolus Company (Mabel Soules, Jimmy Fernandez)

Stamis Family (Brown Stamis, Dan Stamis)

Stimming Flowers (Robert Stimming)

Thornton Flower Growers (E.G. "Thorny" Thornton, John Noonan, Eugene E. Stuck)

Vander Bruggen Family (Waandert Jacobus / W.J., Nick)

Weidners' Gardens (Bob and Evelyn Weidner)

Alhanati, Louis / Parisian Flowers

Alkana, Leo and Margaret

Bergez, Emile ("Frenchie")

Berry, Bob, AIFD

Broadway Florist

Casabar, Silverio, AIFD

Del Fante, Mario (and Ben)

Francis, Harold J. (and Harold E.)

Fredenhagen, Frank

Garren, Bob

Gibbons, Fred

Haley, Frank

Hasson, Victor (and Ron)

Hum, Charley

Jacob Maarse Florist

Kirkpatrick, Kirk, AIFD

Knudsen, Jens (Jim)

Leo's Flowers

Lynch, James, AIFD

Maarse, Jacob

Nelson, Cedric

Nottke, Ray

Richards, Joe

Rolleri Family

Rulloda, Phil, AAF, AIFD, PFCI

Schmuhl, Gordon, AIFD

Stathatos Family

Sutton, Natalie

Taylor Robert

Thurnher, Erna

Tucker, Ray

van Rems, Rene, AIFD

Verdugo Hills Floral Company (Peggy Lee, Jim Knudsen)

Visser's Florist

Villa Florist

Wakefield, Don

Yack Family