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son, survive him. While we regret to part with Brother Dedon, 

 our state needing so badly the work and example of such men as 

 he, who always' faithfully perform that which is given to them to 

 perform, we acquiesce, knowing that our loss is his gain. 



Jacob Warren Manning passed over Sept. i6, 1904, at Read- 

 ing, Mass., in his seventy-ninth year. To the memory of this 

 veteran horticulturist America owes much. As an introducer 

 of rare and valuable new fruits, flowers and trees, Mr, Manning 

 was in the front rank. It was he who in 1849 while in the em- 

 ploy of D. W. Cole at Chelsea, Mass., planted and propagated the 

 seedling grape of Mr. Wm. Bull afterwards called Concord. Go- 

 ing to Reading in 1854, he started a nursery, in the management 

 of which he achieved an enviable reputation throughout the land. 

 A co-worker with Cole, Wilder and Downing, a member of all 

 leading horticultural societies, and a man of rare natural ability 

 along these lines, he very soon took a commanding position 

 in his chosen profession. His singleness of aim and lofty 

 purpose met their due reward in this life. 



Christian Theilmann was born June 6th, 1833, at Kieselbronn, 

 in Baden, Germany. Coming to this country in 1854, he was 

 married to Angola Schocke in 1856, at St. Louis, Mo., and in the 

 spring of 1857 with his wife settled on his claim in Indian Creek 

 valley, Wabasha Co., Minn., where they lived till called to the 

 higher life. We copy from the American Bee Journal the follow- 

 ing: "The first year Mr. Theilmann had to carry his provisions 

 on his back from Wabash (thirteen miles), making the round trip 

 in a day. In 1857 he hired four yoke of oxen and a twenty-four 

 inch plow from neighbors and all alone broke the first six acres on 

 his claim in two days, to pay for which he worked seventeen days 

 of fourteen hours each mowing grass by hand." Thirty-nine years 

 ago we enjoyed the hospitality of his log cabin and sold him some 

 nursery stock. He was a great lover of fruit and flowers, and early 

 became a member of this society. It w'as as a bee-keeper that he 

 made an enviable reputation. Starting in 1869 with one colony of 

 bees, found in the woods, he sold 25,000 pounds of honey in 1889, 

 which, together with bees sold, brought $2,500. 



In many respects Mr. Theilmann was a man of more than ordi- 

 nary ability. His marked individuality, strict integrity and great 

 benevolence caused him to be loved and respected by all who 

 knew him. May the 20th, 1904, willing and anxious to go. he 

 passed on to a higher destiny beyond the vale. 



