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NICK PULICH
Since his earliest years devoted to
the cultivation of flowers and plants, Nick Pulich is enjoying a well-deserved
prosperity as the proprietor of the City Park Nursery at 1438 Oxford Street,
Stockton. A native of Dalmatia, then a
part of Austria, but now of Yugoslavia, Mr. Pulich was born at Ragusa on April
15, 1886. In this district flowers are
grown in profusion and from the time he was a young lad he worked in the garden
there, so that by the time he came to America in 1903, although he was only
seventeen years old, he had already acquired an extensive experience in nursery
work. After arriving here his first work
was on a fruit and vineyard ranch on the Copperopolis Road, and then for two
years he worked in the gold mines in Calaveras County. For a time he was employed
in Stockton, and then went to Watsonville where he was in the fruit business
for two years. Returning to
Stockton he was for two years a gardener in the city park, and after taking the
civil service examination was gardener at the State Hospital for a year.
In 1917 in partnership with C. R.
Armstrong, Mr. Pulich started the City Park Nursery in City Park Terrace, and
after and a year and a half together Mr. Pulich bought his interest and has
since been the sole owner. An authority
in landscape gardening, Mr. Pulich has developed the grounds of many of
Stockton’s finest homes—those of Walter Hansel, Carl Ortman, Mrs. Charles
Ortman, Eli Blanchard, F. J. Viebrock, E. Allen Test,
George P. du Bose, A. H. Patterson, R. L. Darter and Bruce Martin. The Griffith ranch on the Lower Sacramento
Road and many places in Yosemite Terrace, Tuxedo Park and Northcrest show his
artistic skill. Mr. Pulich raises all
varieties of ornamental potted plants and has a large business in cut
flowers. He experiments with all the new
varieties of roses and has propagated forty new ones since 1913. He has 200 bushes of a new rose that is very
popular, orders being given for them in advance.
On February 2, 1913, Mr. Pulich was
married to Miss Stella Pulich, who was born and reared in the same place as her
husband, going to school together when they were children; they have one son,
Martin. Loyal to the interests of his
adopted land, Mr. Pulich was made a citizen of the United States in 1913.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1248-1251. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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