THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 25. SEPTEMBER, 1897. NO. 9. 



I^ ]Vl[eEQoriaiT^. 



WILLIAM E. BRIMHALL, 



SAN DIEGO, CAL. 



Died June 29tb, 1897, aged 72 years. 



(For portrait and auto-biographical sketch, 

 see "Horticulturist" for July, 1897.) 



"Leaves have their time to fall, 

 And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 



And stars to set— but all— 

 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!" 



—Mrs. Hemans. 

 During the summer of 1885, after a continuous residence in Minne- 

 sota since the autumn of 1850, the writer determined to leave for 

 California, having become very much broken down in health. My 

 nursery, in the mean time, had been laid out in lots, as an addition 

 to St. Paul. The greenhouses were rented,and on a bleak November 

 day Mrs. Ford and I bade adieu forever to the fond spot that had 

 been our home for nearly one-third of a century. It was indeed 

 a sad parting with old friends and neighbors, whom we never ex- 

 pected to see again; but some told us they were quite sure to fol- 

 low later. 



Among these were our now departed friends, Wm. B. Quinn and 

 W. E. Brimhall, also Truman M. Smith, so long the president of our 

 State Horticultural Society, all of whom came out in the fall of 1886. 

 Our first point for stopping was at Los Angeles, but not liking the 

 climate of that place as well as the more uniforin temperature of 

 San Diego, which I had visited during the summer, in December we 

 came to this great sanitarium, and were much surprised to find so 

 many of our dear old neighbors here before us. 



