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Listing last updated on Wed Jan 2025
San Jose, California
United States
[From The National nurseryman, January 1910, p. 451:] [advertisement] Berrydale Experiment Gardens, Holland, Mich. [only berry  production]

[From The Florists' Review, September 2, 1915, p. 52:] Sante Cruz, Cal.— The Santa Cruz Bulb & Plant Co., which of late has been a heavy advertiser in certain trustful trade papers and, indeed, was represented in two of them in their issues of August 28, is in the hands of its creditors. Attachment against the company, which originally was conducted by Alfred Mitting but more recently by his son, Ernest Deroo Mitting, amounts to about $1,000, but returns are said to be not yet all in. The attaching creditors are bulb growers in the vicinity of Santa Cruz, who had turned their freesia and calla bulbs over to the Mittings to be sold. Some of these growers had received small payments on account, but many are said to have received nothing and prospects for realizing on any claims are thought to be poor, as there are practically no assets and bankruptcy proceedings are said to be in contemplation. Attachment proceedings were begun about August 21 and both Mittings, father and son, are said soon to have left Santa Cruz and their present whereabouts is said to be unknown to their creditors. Alfred Mitting, the father, will be recalled as once before having been engaged in the bulb business at Santa Cruz and subsequently in the nursery business at Holland, Mich., where he traded as the Berrydale Experiment Gardens.

[From The Florists' Review, September 23, 1915, p. 56:] "MITTING JUNIOR IS JAILED." Under the above quoted heading the Santa Cruz, Cal., News of September 13 printed further news of the Mitting family and the lately defunct Santa Cruz Bulb & Plant Co., particulars of which were printed in The Review of September 2. Both Alfred Mitting and his son, Ernest Deroo Mitting, left Santa Cruz after attachment proceedings were instituted. Local bulb growers turned over their calla and freesia bulbs to the Mittings to be sold, but are said to have received practically nothing in payment. The Santa Cruz News of September 13 said: "E. Deroo Mitting, late proprietor of the much-embarrassed Santa Cruz Bulb & Plant Co., is in jail, charged with the embezzlement of $128 entrusted to his care by W. T, Huff. 
"Mitting was caught in San Francisco by Constable Frank Dille yesterday afternoon and brought to Santa Cruz at noon today. The charge against young Mitting is a felony and a verdict of guilty in such a case means a term in state's prison. "Mr. Huff, who raises bulbs near Del Mar, alleges that Mitting, as agent in the pale of his (Huff's) bulbs, refused to pay up after he had sold the bulbs."

[From The Florists' Review, May 11, 1916, p. 21:] From San Jose, Cal., comes word of the death there, April 30, of Alfred Mitting, known to florists, seedsmen and nurserymen the country over through the extent and diversified character of his business dealings. Mr. Mitting, a native of England, was 58 years of age. He first became known to the trade when he conducted a greenhouse establishment at Morris, Ill., specializing on young stock for growing on, in which line he was one of the pioneers. Removing to California, he located at Santa Cruz, where he quickly built up a large business in bulbs, especially callas and gladioli, shipping great quantities to the trade in the east. Encountering what he considered a favorable opportunity to capitalize the results of his efforts, he sold out and removed to Holland, Mich., where he did business in the nursery line under the title of the Berrydale Experiment Gardens. Returning to California after a few years, he again started in business at Santa Cruz, this time with his son. This venture, however, was short-lived and the family removed to San Jose, where an effort was being made to resuscitate the family fortunes. Mr. Mitting had some loyal friends in the east. He is survived by his wife and two children, Ernest De Roo Mitting and Flora Birdie Mitting.

[From The Florists' Review, July 13, 1916, p. 17:] The Berrydale Gardens will be moved to this city from their present location at San Jose, Cal. The Berrydale Gardens wholesale and retail calla and freesia bulbs, hybrid tea roses, berry and carnation plants. The gardens are being brought to Fort Wayne through the efforts of the Commercial Club of this city.
 
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