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had passed amidst the rustic scenes of a home in the country, on a 

 farm; and as the seashell, though ever so long and far away from its 

 home in the surf, will, when placed to the ear always moan of its 

 ocean home, so his great and tender soul ever yearned for a life among 

 the flora and sylva of youth. His brave and benignant spirit explored 

 all avenues of knowledge which led into flowering fields and orchards. 

 To his eye every blos.som was a poem ; to his quick perception every 

 tree a book full of useful and agreeable teachings. And to the study 

 of these volumes— these continued annuals— fresh in new binding, em- 

 bellishment, and gilding every summer and autumn, Dr. Warder de- 

 voted the choicest years of his mature manhood. 



It is the enthusiast of a cause who gives vitality and propulsive 

 power. Dr. Warder was an enthusiast in horticulture and in forestry. 

 To advance the race in those two vocations no labor was too great for 

 him to undertake, no sacrifice too severe for him joyfully to make. At 

 his own expense he went into fresh territories and States, preaching, 

 as a missionary of a new gospel, the importance and necessity of or- 

 charding and tree planting. His thoughts were strewn, like precious 

 seeds, among the dwellers on the prairies of Nebraska, Dakota, Wyom- 

 ing, Minnesota, and the Northwest. And they took root, so that the 

 concepts of thousands of groves and orchards, which now stand as liv- 

 ing monuments to his useful life, came, from his own philanthropic 

 brain. In his mind miniature forests grew on every prairie, and gold- 

 en fruit flashed in the autumn sunlight of every hillside. He knew 

 no limit to his love of horticulture and arboriculture. He was earnest, 

 lie was active, sincere, and his vitajgraph is written wherever flowers 

 bloom, fruits ripen and forests wave all over the country he loved so 

 well and served so modestly, efficiently and faithfully. 



His example is worthy of the emulation of our sons ami of their 

 sons. And standing at his grave it is meet and proper for this Society 

 to recall his noble services to its cause, to wish that, with each recur- 

 ring year his memory may, like the flowers and foliage he studied so 

 well, be clotli(>d in new verdure and its fragrance peritetuated as a 

 grateful perfume. 



Resolved, That the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society deplores 

 tiie ileath of its friend and active member. Dr. John A. Warder, of 

 Ohio; that our sincere condolence is extended to his family, and that 

 we recommend to kindred societies throughout the Northwest the 

 l)lanting of memorial trees and groves to commeuKjrate his labors, his 

 achievements, and his j)hilanthropy as a skilled orchardist and forester. 



Mr. iScofield, of Kansa.s — A.s u life- long I'rieml ol' Or Wanler, 

 1 want to indorse the memoria]. 



Secretary Ror/an — It was my pleasure, at .sixteen, to meet Dr. 



