Michael A. Spencer Theodore Mead Collection on 1887-1939

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Michael A. Spencer Theodore Mead Collection on 1887-1939

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Theodore Mead was a horticulturist who owned an orange grove in Eustis, Florida and developed a property in Oviedo, Florida to research and hybridize plants. The collection contains Mead's notebook and family correspondence, together with a brochure and news clipping about the founding of Mead Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.

1 Box; 0.2 linear feet

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Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries,

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Spencer, Michael A.

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Julian Nally was born in 1903; his father was Edward Julian Nally who became the president of RCA. Julian graduated from Princeton University and in 1932, he purchased the former Nehrling property known as Palm Cottage Gardens. There, he and his wife Margaret continued Nehrling's work growing bromeliads. He hybridized a bromeliad which he named Aechmea Maginali after his wife. Nally was a charter member of the Bromeliad Society, Inc. and served on the Board of Directors from 1951 th...

Mead, Theodore Luqueer, 1852-1936

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Botanist. From the description of Theodore Luqueer Mead postal cards, 1873-1881. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073017 ...