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GEORGE VALENTINE NASH 



The New York Botanical Garden and the Horticultural Society 

 of New York have sustained a grievous loss in the death on July 

 15th, 1921, of Mr. George Valentine Nash, Head Gardener and 

 Curator of the Plantations. He had served the Garden con- 

 tinuously since 1896, first during its preliminary organization, as 

 a General Assistant, next during 1900, as Curator of the Planta- 

 tions, then during twenty years as Head Gardener, to which 

 title that of Curator of the Plantations was added in 1921. He 

 thus took a very important part in the bringing together of the 

 collections of living plants and in their installation and main- 

 tenance. 



Mr. Nash was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 6, 1864. 

 Much of his boyhood was spent at Clifton, New Jersey, where 

 his father conducted a horticultural business, in which he was 

 employed, specializing in roses and in water plants; his attention 

 was thus early drawn to Botany and he was fortunate in coming 

 about the year 1888 under the influence of the eminent Dr. 

 George Thurber, for many years editor of the American Agri- 

 culturist, a profound botanical student and an enthusiastic col- 

 lector, especially of grasses. Mr. Nash quite naturally inherited 

 Dr. Thurber's interest in grasses, receiving from him a large 

 part of his extensive grass herbarium, and this interest continued 

 for many years, until his other duties forced it to one side. He 

 diligently studied the wild plants of Ne / Jersey, and he became 

 a member of the Torrey Botanical Club in 1891; at about this 

 time my acquaintance with him commenced; for several years 

 thereafter he brought specimens to me for identification, and 

 during this period he determined to take the first opportunity 



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