-a- 0.9..&/ 'VV 0 0 0 by HELEN SPANGENBERG MacDougall King photos SAD-EYED YOUNG MAN approached the office of the then Pine Grove Sanitarium on Grove Avenue in Pacific Grove. He looked into a pair of kindly, luminous blue eyes and poured out his tale. He was looking for help with his four motherless children. The blue eyes met those of the young man with sympathy, for they were the eyes of the mother of a fatherless boy. That was forty years ago, marking the meeting of Glen Ryan and Carrie Georgina Pilley Ryan, who celebrated their ruby anniversary the day after Christmas last year. Theirs isn't a great story, nor is it sensational, but it is a happy story of the hard work of two people, with good humor and a light touch, met the vicissitudes of life, reared their children and made a botanical contribution to the Monterey peninsula. For more than thirty years, the Ryans grew ferns on their Sinex avenue property in Pacific Grove, raising many of the specimens from spores, tending the plants and selling them to al+'u_+-G *ss; r A'r--\ tj t¢GL MR. AND MRS. GLEN RYAN nurseries which eventually sold them to individual gardeners. Mr. Ryan believes that it is he who introduced the Australian tree fern to the peninsula and was the first to grow holly fern from spore. It was during the depression in the ' 30's that Mr. Ryan first starte i growing ferns on a commercial scale, though he was a plumber by trade. It's a painstaking job to plant the spores - ·esembling drops of cinnamon - on peat moss or agar, with.he help of tweezers and a magnifying glass. Depending on the temperament and response to conditions in the glasshouse, a single spore germinates, producing a little flat leaf-like body. Then, after from two to six months, the turn to page 26 The niommoth stables which faced Grand Avenue with the rear facinG Laurel Avenue in Pacific Grove was the largest stoble in Califgrnia when this photo was taken In I 890. r C b e. I r IF .g -=71!k=-=F -- F Y t $ #41% , OCR Text: -a- 0.9..&/ 'VV 0 0 0 by HELEN SPANGENBERG MacDougall King photos SAD-EYED YOUNG MAN approached the office of the then Pine Grove Sanitarium on Grove Avenue in Pacific Grove. He looked into a pair of kindly, luminous blue eyes and poured out his tale. He was looking for help with his four motherless children. The blue eyes met those of the young man with sympathy, for they were the eyes of the mother of a fatherless boy. That was forty years ago, marking the meeting of Glen Ryan and Carrie Georgina Pilley Ryan, who celebrated their ruby anniversary the day after Christmas last year. Theirs isn't a great story, nor is it sensational, but it is a happy story of the hard work of two people, with good humor and a light touch, met the vicissitudes of life, reared their children and made a botanical contribution to the Monterey peninsula. For more than thirty years, the Ryans grew ferns on their Sinex avenue property in Pacific Grove, raising many of the specimens from spores, tending the plants and selling them to al 'u_ -G *ss; r A'r--\ tj t¢GL MR. AND MRS. GLEN RYAN nurseries which eventually sold them to individual gardeners. Mr. Ryan believes that it is he who introduced the Australian tree fern to the peninsula and was the first to grow holly fern from spore. It was during the depression in the ' 30's that Mr. Ryan first starte i growing ferns on a commercial scale, though he was a plumber by trade. It's a painstaking job to plant the spores - ·esembling drops of cinnamon - on peat moss or agar, with.he help of tweezers and a magnifying glass. Depending on the temperament and response to conditions in the glasshouse, a single spore germinates, producing a little flat leaf-like body. Then, after from two to six months, the turn to page 26 The niommoth stables which faced Grand Avenue with the rear facinG Laurel Avenue in Pacific Grove was the largest stoble in Califgrnia when this photo was taken In I 890. r C b e. I r IF .g -=71!k=-=F -- F Y t $ #41% , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Historic Properties of Pacific Grove,Sinex,392 Sinex,392 - 918 SINEX AVE_012.pdf,392 - 918 SINEX AVE_012.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: 392 - 918 SINEX AVE_012.PDF, 392 - 918 SINEX AVE_012.pdf 1 Page 1