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HORTICULTURE 



March 1, 1919 



Obituary 



C. S. Harrison 



C. S. Harrison, the Grand Old Man 

 of Nebraska, passed away at 4 o'clock, 

 Sunday morning, Feb. 23. He was 86 

 years of age. 



Mr. Harrison was born in the state 

 of Xew York, Nov. 24, 1832, and went 

 with his parents to Illinois in 1844. He 

 worked on a farm until 21. Fitted 

 for college in Chicago, paid his way 

 braiding whiplashes at one and one- 

 half cents a foot. Made nearly a mile 

 of them that winter, left home with 

 $5.00 was gone eight months and re- 

 turned with $10, lived on 65 cents a 

 week. Studied in Beloit College and 

 was classmate for a time with Dr. 

 James Strong, of Northfield College. 



Commenced work as Home Mission- 

 ary on the frontiers of Minnesota in 

 1857 before the roads and bridges got 

 there, suffered all kinds of privations 

 — nearly drowned, the horse sinking 

 three times with him, nearly frozen, 

 had to live on potatoes and tallow, and 

 didn't know the history of the tallow 

 and didn't want to know. He had a 

 tract of country one hundred miles in 

 extent where he preached the first 

 sermon. Sometimes on cold winter 

 nights he was followed by gaunt tim- 

 ber wolves, who howled almost broken 

 hearted, because they could not have 

 missionary raw and warm for supper. 

 He was called here and there to 

 preach and bury the dead. He also 

 performed many surgical operations. 

 He saved the life of one man badly 

 mangled in the saw mill. His son 

 born after, was for five consecutive 

 terms a member of congress, and his 

 daughter wanted to be married by the 

 man who saved Grandpa. The cere- 

 mony was performed in one of the 

 largest hotels of Minneapolis just fifty- 

 five years after the terrible accident. 



After four years of strenuous work 

 he went to Illinois. He was in the 

 active ministry forty-five years, helped 

 build sixteen churches, held many 

 precious revivals, gathering in hun- 

 dreds on confession. At one time re- 

 ceiving one hundred and two within a 

 month. 



In 1871 he was called by Land 

 Commissioner George Harris, of the 

 Burlington Railroad, to take a col- 

 ony into York, which he cheerfully 

 undertook to do, inducing about six 

 hundred people to come to town and 

 county. He started the town on the 

 principle that Decency Pays and 

 though sixteen miles from the railroad 

 beat every town from Crete to Hast- 

 ings. Fought the saloon to a finish 

 and York now is one of the best cities 

 in the West. 



The most important work of his life 

 was to aid in founding Franklin Acad- 

 emy in the Republican Valley in 1879 

 to which he gave the best years of 

 his life and several thousand dollars. 

 This school has done a wonderful 

 work, aiding 3,000 students to a broad- 

 er life. 



When about forty years old he be- 

 came intensely interested in horticul- 

 ture. While at Franklin he had a 

 state experiment station where he ed- 

 ucated several students. 



Since seventy years of age he has 

 published the "Gold Mine in the Front 

 Yard," three editions of the peony 

 manual, two of the phlox, two of the 

 iris and the evergreens, "The Undis- 

 covered Country at Home." "Adorn- 

 ing the Beulah Land of the Hither 

 Shore." 



Following is his farewell message, 

 which we print by request: 



Good bye grand old mother earth; good 

 bye majestic mountains, fertile plains, 

 forests, singing brooks and sparkling 

 lakes 



Goodbye you thousands of Horticult- 

 urists. Thank you for your many kindly 

 words and appreciation of my labors. We 

 have bad a good time trying to lift our 

 calling to a higher plane. 



i; 1 bye all my personal friends who 



have given me kindly cheer on my way. 



My crowning work is the Gospel of 

 Beauty lately published, with sketch of 

 my life and a photo. The price is $1.00 

 for the cloth binding, and fifty cents for 

 the paper. 



My life work Was founding and helping 

 sustain Franklin Academy. The proceeds 

 of my book will go to help the Academy 



C. S. Harrison 



which has done such heroic work, bene- 

 fitting thousands of young people. 



I die thanking God I have lived and 

 known you all. May you succeed in your 

 glorious work here and then be exalted to 

 the higher Horticulture of God, whose 

 everlasting spring abides, and never 

 withering flowers. 



Ever yours, 



C. S. Harrison. 



Abram H. Cushman 



Abram H. Cushman for many years 

 prominently identified with the seed 

 business in Rochester, died February 

 19th at his home 230 Magee Avenue 

 in his 83rd year. He leaves one 

 son, Win. G. Cushman, of this city. 

 The funeral was held at the family 

 home and interment was at Mt. Hope. 

 Abram H. Cushman was of New Eng- 

 land ancestry, being a direct descen- 

 dant of Robert Cushman, who boarded 

 the Mayflower, but with other Puritans 

 was compelled to make the journey 

 to the New World in the Speedwell. 

 He was born July 22nd 1836 at Ray- 

 mertown, near Troy. At the age of 

 14 came to Rochester to enter school 

 and to stay with an elder brother. 

 Wm. T. Cushman. with whom he was 

 later associated in the grocery busi- 



ness. Later he entered the seed busi- 

 ness and for eight years was manager 

 of the Cleveland Seed Co. in New 

 York City. Then he returned to 

 Rochester and engaged in the seed 

 business with which he was connected 

 at the time of his death. 



ANOTHER QUARANTINE 

 According to State Commissioner of 

 Agriculture Wilfrid Wheeler, the mar- 

 ket gardens of Massachusetts are 

 threatened with $1,000,000 damage if 

 the United States Government puts 

 into effect its proposed quarantine 

 against the European corn-borer. Mr. 

 Wheeler's statement was made Tues- 

 day before the Legislative Committee 

 on Agriculture at a hearing which 

 was attended by many market garden- 

 ers and nurserymen. 



Commissioner Wheeler read a circu- 

 lar from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Washington, giving notice of 

 a hearing there on the proposition to 

 quarantine Massachusetts and New 

 York against the transportation of all 

 herbaceous plants, including garden 

 and flowering plants, such as celery, 

 Swiss chard, green or string beans, 

 beet tops, spinach, turnip tops, dahlias, 

 including stems and tubers; of gladi- 

 olus, chrysanthemums, corn in all 

 forms and parts of the plant and all 

 other field, vegetable and flowering 

 herbaceous plants. 



Commissioner Wheeler had the com- 

 mittee take up, for special considera- 

 tion, the section of the proposed codi- 

 fication of the agricultural laws which 

 authorizes him, after investigation 

 and finding of due cause, to quaran- 

 tine any town or city where the corn- 

 borer is found and threatens it. 



He told of the need of immediate ac- 

 tion to forestall ruinous quarantine by 

 the United States and asked that this 

 section of the bill be taken out and 

 made an emergency bill by itself and 

 rushed through to the Governor. 



Strong representations of the dan- 

 ger of quarantine against this state 

 were made by J. K. M. L. Farquhar of 

 the market gardeners, W. H. Wyman 

 of the Bay State Nursery, George W. 

 Smith of Wellesley Hills, David G. 

 Stranger of the Cherry Hill Nursery, 

 H. F. Thompson, head of the market 

 garden department of the Agricultural 

 College, who said that $1,000,000 would 

 be a low estimate of the damage in 

 this State this year from quarantine; 

 H. W. Tinkham of Warren. R. I.. 

 speaking for Massachusetts gardeners, 

 and others. 



Commissioner Wheeler, who attend- 

 ed the hearing at Washington Wednes- 

 day, before the Federal Horticultural 

 Board for the quarantine and exter- 

 mination of the European corn borer, 

 states that the control in this state 

 will be intrusted to the Massachusetts 

 Department of Agriculture and that 

 similar action was taken in regard 

 to New York state. 



