EXPORT 
DEPARTMENT 
A WORLD-WIDE SERVICE 
Seldom does a grower of nursery products find a demand for his material 
outside the bounds of his own state or his immediate neighborhood. The reason 
for this is obvious. Live plants are always delicate, and unless of the very highest 
quality, strong and sound, they are unable to withstand the severe handling in¬ 
volved in shipment abroad. 
For many years an increasing demand for “Roeding’s Quality” nursery 
products in foreign countries has borne witness not only to superiority of plant 
material, but to a tradition of service. The first catalog ever published in a foreign 
language by a nursery company in California was distributed by California 
Nursery Company more than forty years ago. Since that time the story of 
“Roeding’s Quality” products has spread far, and today trees and plants from 
our fields are to be found producing the finest fruits and adding charm to gardens 
on every continent of the globe. 
Recently a new airway service, swinging out across the Pacific toward the 
Orient, found the islands of Midway and Wake conveniently situated for the 
establishment of bases, and turned to California Nursery Company for assistance 
in landscape development. Passengers on Pan American Clipper ships stopping at 
Midway and Wake Islands now find splendid accommodations set in beautiful sur¬ 
roundings of landscape material supplied from our growing grounds. 
A large corporation developing the oil deposits of Bahrein, in the Persian 
Gulf, found fruit tree and ornamental planting a difficult problem because of 
extreme temperature ranges, high winds, and little rain. California Nursery Com¬ 
pany was glad to cooperate in working toward a solution of this problem, and 
results have been gratifying. 
Latin American countries during recent years have realized the importance 
of developing a fruit industry. Remarkable progress has been made in this direc¬ 
tion and today one may be sure to find “Roeding’s Quality” fruit trees and 
grapevines in new orchards and vineyards throughout Mexico, South and Cen¬ 
tral America. 
Some time ago one of our friends located far out in Inner Asia wrote to us 
about unusual conditions of transport that had hindered him in obtaining fruit 
trees for a region where good fruit was unknown. Distance alone was not the 
only obstacle, but temperatures along the route would be high, and toward the 
end of the journey it would be necessary to transport the trees on muleback over 
desolate mountain passes. 
An order of selected trees was prepared for him and specially packed in small, 
strong cases; was shipped from San Francisco by fast trans-Pacific steamer to 
Hong Kong, transshipped to Haiphong, on the coast of French Indo-China, up the 
twisting railway to railhead at Yunnanfu, and then almost five weeks by mule 
and coolie porters into remote Inner Asia where the highlands of Tibet and 
Burma come down to meet the hill country of West China. 
Recently a letter from this friend across the world came to our desk, and we 
believe many people in distant lands will be interested in what he has to say: 
“The order of fruit trees, berry plants, and grapevines shipped by you De¬ 
cember IS reached us on March 30, on the Tibetan border. We were anxious lest 
the stock dry out and die before it reached us, but your packing was so excellent 
that plenty of moisture was retained and nearly all the stock made a vigorous 
growth the first year.” 
Our location at Niles gives us a particular advantage in the prompt dispatch 
and rapid delivery of shipments to far countries. Stretching out from Niles is a 
vast network of rail lines which offer the most rapid overland transportation. 
The ports of San Francisco and Oakland, but a short distance away, afford splen¬ 
did shipping facilities to all corners of the world. Each year, as the growing 
season in our fields draws to a close, the sturdy young trees and plants are assem¬ 
bled here. When your order reaches our Export Department the material you 
desire is selected from this stock, is carefully packed in strong cases, with just 
the right amount of damp moss or other packing material to protect the plants 
from lack of moisture during the journey to you. 
Write us about your planting problems. Give us a brief description of your 
location, ranges of temperatures, the amount of rainfall, and we will be glad to 
assist you in finding the varieties of fruit trees, grapevines, rose bushes, or orna¬ 
mental plants best suited to your particular conditions. Send us a list of the 
plants and trees in which you are interested, and we will gladly submit an esti¬ 
mate of the approximate delivered cost of your order. 
Our shipping season at Niles begins usually about January 1, and lasts 
until the latter part of March. Throughout the entire year a vast number 
of orders are accumulated which must be dispatched to all parts of the 
world during this brief period. Because our stock is not unlimited it is 
necessary to make actual reservations of desired varieties as the orders 
reach us. For this reason we urgently request our friends in foreign 
countries to place their orders at the earliest possible date, thus avoiding 
the necessity of substitution or omission. 
California Nursery Company Service 
is world-wide. 
Christmas—and Santa Claus (Capt. Edwin 
C. Musick, Chief Pilot of Pan American Air¬ 
ways, Ltd., Pacific Division) carries Califor¬ 
nia Nursery Company living Christmas trees 
by Air Express to islands in the Mid-Pacific. 
Remarkable results are had from California 
Nursery Company grapevines planted in 
Northern Mexico. 
Evidence of superior quality. California 
Nursery Company roses and ornamentals 
add beauty to gardens of the highlands 
of Latin America. 
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