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Cutting garden, important specialties, and plant lists for California homes

Description: Yoch's original folder title was "Cutting garden, important specialties, every home list for California."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: Undated
Call number: archYoch
Creator: Yoch, Florence(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of James J. Yoch and Nancy Yoch, 2015.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; Objects (boxes 42-45) do not circulate. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Associated people: Aplin, William, (1938-2018,); Bashford, Katherine, (1938-2018,)

Garden Instruction Book and related materials

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Contains the Garden Instruction Book plus two folders' worth of assorted files. The book covers topics including general garden information (soils, climate, humus); maintenance; types of plants; maintaining the health of the garden; compost; alternations and successions; cutting gardens and potted plants; a garden calendar; and special directions. Per note written by the executor of Florence Yoch's estate, Connie Ward, one of Yoch and Council's clients referred to this book as "the sacred black book." Related materials include a folder containing a garden calendar and various instructions, such as care and maintenance of soil; pest management; and formulas for cement mixtures for colored concrete flagstones.

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Quotations from literature and history

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Yoch's original folder title was "Quotations - literature, history, books."

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Home Gardening

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This collection contains the professional papers of American landscape architect Florence Yoch (1890-1972) relating to her work designing landscapes and gardens primarily in Southern California, but also in Northern California, Mexico, and other locales, chiefly with her partner Lucile Council (1898-1964) and their firm Yoch and Council. The collection includes approximately 2700 photographs; approximately 250 drawings and renderings, including 163 rolled drawings; approximately 600 postcards; office records; travel journals; research materials; writings; and artifacts. The materials date from 1869 to 2013, with the bulk of the collection relating to Yoch's work from 1918 until shortly before her death and representing 100 of her over 250 projects. The collection also includes research and administrative files of James J. Yoch, Florence Yoch's cousin, comprising photographs, approximately 2500 slides, notes, articles, bibliographies, correspondence, and publicity materials for his book, Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Sagapress, Inc., New York, 1989) and for the exhibition he curated with Eric T. Haskell of Scripps College, "Personal Edens: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch," which opened at the Huntington Library in 1992 before traveling to other locations.

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Doerr residence, Pasadena, Calif

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Includes original and two copies of letter from Yoch to Doerr containing horticultural and garden instructions (1961); plus eight pages of Yoch's handwritten notes on gardening, some on small pieces of paper and one on the back of a bank check. Also contains photograph by George Waters of Mexican statue in garden (1988).

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Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, Calif

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Contains two later prints of drawing by Katherine Bashford of Yoch's garden design.

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Johnston Botanical Garden (B. F. Johnston), Los Mochis, Mexico

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Folder 17 contains 11 photographs, including one gelatin silver print by William Aplin (1958) and 10 snapshots, some containing captions identifying plants. Also contains four prints of renderings by Harrison Clarke; these are copies of some of the artwork featured in the exhibition, "Personal Edens." Folder 18 includes two original pencil drawings depicting garden designs, possibly by Yoch.

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