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courtesy Lona Pierce
In 1922, E.C. (Butz) Peterson and E. P. (Mike) Dering started a general nursery near Fairview, Oregon. In 1932 they moved their nursery to the Scappoose Drainage district. In 1934 they built a 40,000 square foot fireproof warehouse with a 14 foot storage cellar and a packing and shipping shed directly overhead. This Scappoose facility located on the S.P.&S. railway siding, shipped to wholesalers in 30 states, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1936 the nursery comprised 60 acres and employed 50 men at the peak of the season. At its apex, Peterson and Dering, Inc. employed 250 and was the largest rose growing operation in the United States. In 1960, an advertisement in the Oregon Journal noted that the business was known internationally, and had a $500,000 share of the annual $2,000,000 revenue of the rose industry. In 1965 the nursery closed after 2 successive years of crop devastation from freezes, ending 33 years of operation in Scappoose.
In 1922, E.C. (Butz) Peterson and E. P. (Mike) Dering started a general nursery near Fairview, Oregon. In 1932 they moved their nursery to the Scappoose Drainage district. In 1934 they built a 40,000 square foot fireproof warehouse with a 14 foot storage cellar and a packing and shipping shed directly overhead. This Scappoose facility located on the S.P.&S. railway siding, shipped to wholesalers in 30 states, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1936 the nursery comprised 60 acres and employed 50 men at the peak of the season. At its apex, Peterson and Dering, Inc. employed 250 and was the largest rose growing operation in the United States. In 1960, an advertisement in the Oregon Journal noted that the business was known internationally, and had a $500,000 share of the annual $2,000,000 revenue of the rose industry. In 1965 the nursery closed after 2 successive years of crop devastation from freezes, ending 33 years of operation in Scappoose.
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P & D Roses 1962.pdf
Rose Fields in 1959
courtesy Evelyn Hudson
Courtesy Kathy Dering
1950 Mr. E. Mike Dering, co-owner holding a rose bush lifted from the ground by the caterpillar diesel D4 Tractor and Tool Bar with lifter attachment. Have 150 acres of roses, harvesting one million this year.
1950 Caterpillar Diesel D4 Tractor and Toll Bar with lifter attachment, lifting roses on one of the World's largest rose nurseries. Total of 150 acres in roses, harvesting one million roses this year.
Royal Rosarians
Royal Rosarians
Order Sheet 2026-503-014.pdf
Images below from the Soil Water District of the Mike Dering farm in the Scappoose dike land. Photographer L.A. Burnett July 1949
Views of waterway for Terrace Outlet. Construction just completed. Waterway has just been fertilized and seeded with White Dutch Clover and Creeping Fescue. Area being irrigated by automatic sprinkler.
Upper part of newly constructed waterway, recently seeded, irrigated twice by automatic crawling sprinkler. Lloyd Burnett.
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