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Spring Flower Trial
From left to right: Andy Higgins (President, Paul Ecke Ranch, Paul Ecke de Guatemala), PEG employee, Andor Gerendas (head engineer, PEG), grower PEG, and Byron Calderon, (general manager, PEG).
Loading a truck with boxes of bare root poinsettias
Paul Ecke Sr. (lower right). This truck was presumably headed to the Encinitas Train Station to ship boxes of bare root poinsettias. Customers would plant them and harvest cut poinsettias from them.
Unidentified industry event
From left to right: Jim Mellano of Mellano and Company, Maureen Ecke (Paul Jr.'s wife), and Paul Ecke Jr. First the right: Bob Otsuka, market manager for the San Francisco Flower Market, H. Michael Mellano of Mellano and Company, ?, Monica Mellano,…
Spring Flower Trial at Goldsmith Seeds, Gilroy
Goldsmith employees and members of the Flower Fields Alliance.
Paul Ecke Jr. at the Flower Auction, Carlsbad
Paul Ecke Jr. at Flower Auction in the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad.
Paul Ecke Jr. at the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad
Paul Ecke Jr. at the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad. The Center was owned and developed by Carltas, the Ecke family real estate company.
Paul Ecke III's residence, Santa Clara, CA
Paul Ecke III's backyard in Santa Clara, when he worked for Hewlett Packard.
Rooted poinsettia cuttings in trays
Rooted poinsettia cuttings in trays going from greenhouse to barn to be packed up for shipping.
Dipping poinsettia bare root stock in a mercury based bath (presumably) before shipping
Picture taken south of the Encinitas Ranch House (in the background).
Paul Ecke Sr. in the Bird of Paradise fields on the Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Paul Ecke Sr. in the the Bird of Paradise fields on the Encinitas Ranch looking north. The white sleeves were put over the flowers to protect them.
Dr. Pat Morishita and Paul Ecke Jr.
Dr. Pat Morishita, an entomologist at the University of California Riverside, consulted at the Ecke Ranch.
Paul Ecke Jr. and an unidentified person
Paul Ecke Jr. and an unidentified person, presumably a member of the Japanese Poinsettia Grower delegation. Picture taken in the Paul Ecke Ranch greenhouses in Encinitas, CA.
Paul Ecke Jr. at the Del Mar Fair Garden Show
Picture taken at the Del Mar Fair Garden Show (renamed the Paul Ecke Jr. Garden Show) with Paul Ecke Jr. presumably awarding the Paul Ecke Sr. Award to the winner.
Unidentified person posing with poinsettias
Unidentified person posing with poinsettias in a greenhouse
David Meyer, Matthew Meyer and Lizbeth Ecke
David Meyer, Matthew Meyer and Lizbeth Ecke at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, CA.