6 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCTETV. 



for better work as a teacher of the young. At the present time, 

 there are teachers in Winona city schools whom father started in 

 the pathway of their Hfework. He was always deeply interested 

 in every line of educational work and was ever a student and a 

 learner of new idieas. "Old fog}^'' could not be applied to him, 

 for he thoroughly believed in progression. 



Although father filled many other places of i)ublic trust which 

 I have not referred to, I presume he was better known in his later 

 years as a horticulturist. I cannot do him justice to write of his 

 work in this line. There is so much that might be said without 

 exaggeration, and it requires greater skill than I possess. I can 

 only quote a few of the kind words of others regarding the work 

 so dear to him. 



He became a member of the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society in 1884, and in December, 1899, he was made an honorary 

 life member of the society. His old home place was also one of the 

 experiment stations connected with the society. He took great 

 pride in his work, and in making acceptable reports to the society, 

 always something of profit to others. 



For some time he was connected with the Farmers' Institute 

 as lecturer on horticulture ; also horticultural editor of the "Farm, 

 vStock and Home," as successor to Mr. John S. Harris. 



As a successful plum grower, he was not only well known 

 throughout the state, but he had the good will of other specialists 

 north and south, east and west. He had a very extensive cor- 

 respondence, much of it containing valuable information from a 

 horticultural standpoint. 



He cultivated a wild plum he found many years ago in the 

 woods, on the bank of the Rollingstone creek near the old home. 

 It was a great pleasure to him to believe he had brought it almost 

 to a state of perfection. He named it the "Rollingstone." It is 

 well spoken of by others interested in plum culture. I quote the 

 following written by a friend of father's, and a visitor at his home 

 in plum season. Regarding the "Rollingstone" he says : "Their 

 productiveness surpassed anything I had ever seen, except the same 

 variety seen at other places. The contrast between the Rolling- 

 stone and other varieties is marked. Here is the place to see 

 and compare, for Mr. Lord has about every variety ever heard of in 

 bearing. In fact, by reason of his long experience and superior 

 judgment as a ])]um specialist, he stands at the head. In all my 

 more than thirty years of search for plums, the things actually 

 seen at his place by far surpassed everything ever before seen." 



