| 1882/00/00 |
Pliny W Reasoner buys 160 acres at 53rd Avenue East (lost), in what is now known as Oneco, Florida, clears the land for planting and experimenting in budded trees. |
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| 1885/00/00 |
Egbert Reasoner joins by his brother, Pliny's plant business in Manatee County, Florida, which is renamed the Reasoner Brothers' Nurseries. |
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| 1886/00/00 |
Pliny Reasoner acquires several young Royal Palm trees from the south gulf coast of Florida. With this these, Reasoner Brothers's nursery becomes the first in the country to propagate and sell Royal Palms. They will rename their company after the plant. |
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| 1887/00/00 |
Henry Chapman Reasoner, father of Pliny and Egbert Reasoner, move the rest of the family to Florida to join Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries. He takes charge of the shipping operations. |
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| 1888/00/00 |
Collecting trips by Henry, Egbert and Pliny, expand the nursery's inventory, which is reflected by the dramatic increase in selections offered in the 1887-1888 catalog. Pliny Reasoner is able to trade plants with every major botanical garden in the world. |
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| 1888/07/00 |
Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries supplies choice Royal Palms for the Florida exhibit at the Cotton States' Centennial in Cincinnati. |
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| 1890/00/00 |
Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries at 3004 53rd Avenue East (lost) in Oneco, Florida, bring to the United States nutmeg from Singapore. |
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Bradenton |
Florida |
Nutmeg |
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| 1895/00/00 |
Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries at 3004 53rd Avenue East (lost) in Oneco, Florida, import avocado trees to the United States from Costa Rica. |
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Bradenton |
Florida |
Avocado |
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| 1900/00/00 |
Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries at 3004 53rd Avenue East (lost) in Oneco, Florida, introduce to the United States the first red hibiscus and the Oneco tangerine. |
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Bradenton |
Florida |
Tangerine |
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| 1903/00/00 |
Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries at 3004 53rd Avenue East (lost) in Oneco, Florida, introduce to the United States the Oneco Mandarin. |
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Bradenton |
Florida |
Mandarin Orange |
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| 1904/00/00 |
George T Kessler, official Landscape Architect of the St Louis World's Fair, selects Reasoners' Royal Palm Nurseries as a supplier of plants for use in landscaping the fairgrounds. |
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition |
| 1918/00/00 |
Egbert Reasoner adds a landscape architecture department to the nursery. It will provide designs for subdivisions and towns throughout the state, including Temple Terrace, Parkland Estates and Gulf View Estates in Tampa. |
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