IN MEMORIAM, JOSEPH LANCASTER BUDD. I25 



Furthermore, it was shown that hardiness of a plant against 

 •cold could be imparted by crossing and hybridizing. This led 

 to beginning the great work in breeding fruits now being so 

 extensively carried on. The wonderful possibility of plant-breed- 

 ing, the power of selection, that plants could be molded like clay 

 in the hands of a potter, all these great seed thoughts he il- 

 lumined and made alive and vital. 



His was a versatile mind, receptive, quick to see and accept 

 new light, like a lightning flash in quickness of perception. In 

 his earlier days he had taught school, was a good geologist and 

 had written excellent poetry ; later on a Columbus and Edison 

 combined in horticulture, a man of marked literary ability, a 

 philosopher, a cool-headed man of affairs, a good financier of 

 mature judgment, the very soul of honor and integrity, his word 

 was as good as his bond. In all my .^ years of close, friendly rela- 

 tions with my departed teacher, I never saw him excited or an- 

 gry. He was cheerfulness personified, always looking on the 

 sunny side of everything. It was a constant tonic to work with 

 him. 



Professor Budd was a wonderfully prolific writer, never hesi- 

 tating for a thought or word, and always with a lesson to im- 

 part. He did this extra work as a labor of love, considering it as 

 a means to reach the vast public outside the walls of his class 

 room. So, week by week, for a generation past, he added line 

 upon line and precept upon precept in the Weekly Iowa State 

 Register until his circle of loyal friends grew so large that the 

 work became too great for his declining strength. The present 

 writer has tried for many years to make as complete a collection 

 as possible of his writings, mindful of the fact that he was care- 

 less in keeping copies for himself. The spirit of optimism, of al- 

 truism, of public spirit, of unselfishness, of brotherly love, per- 

 vades and illumines all these writings. He esteemed one man 

 as good as another and had a cordial greeting and word of cheer 

 for every one. 



As a teacher his great distinguishing characteristic was that 

 he imparted deep and abiding enthusiasm for the work and de- 

 veloped the individuality of each one, not attempting to make 

 them all after one model. Ever mindful of the fact that every 

 man is a seedling, and no two are alike in characteristics, he 

 used the pruning knife of keen, unerring judgment, and with a 

 loving hand, so that each sapling could assume its natural habit 

 of growth, cutting out only the aberrant shoots. Eminently 

 practical above all things, yet he was a dreamer of dreams, high 

 and noble, a dweller on the rock-foundation heights alone, with 

 a majestic expanse of landscape unfolded before his view, while 

 the ordinary workers in the Lord's garden dwelt in the foothills 

 and narrow valleys far beneath. He was a seer and a prophet in 

 many ways ahead of his time. Had his restless spirit, so eager 

 for the public welfare, permitted him to conserve his strength 

 more, he would perhaps still be in the land of living. As it is, 

 he now sleeps the sleep of one who has labored long and earnest- 

 ly in the Lord's vineyard, who has borne the heat and burden of 



