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fluenza, in the 68th year of his age. He was born in 1823, in the 

 village of Path Head, near Edinburgh, Scotland. His early edu- 

 cation was obtained in the parish school. He was always a close 

 observer, and had a faculty of turning his observations to good ad- 

 vantage. He early became interested in botany and the arts asso- 

 ciated with it. At sixteen he was apprenticed to a gardener. At 

 the age of twenty, with little capital excepting energy, industry 

 and a strong constitution, he came to this country and entered the 

 employ of J. M. Thorburn & Co., Astoria, Long Island. By fru- 

 gality he accumulated a small capital, and in 1847 began business 

 as a market gardener, in Jersey City. This business he followed 

 with success for about twenty years, when he began the cultivation 

 of ornamental plants, and the business became so great that market 

 gardening was gradually given up. A little later he became a 

 seedsman, and at the time of his death was accounted the most suc- 

 cessful and widely known seedsman in America. He was a concise 

 and able writer on subjects pertaining to his business, and his pro- 

 ductions were the most widely read of any author of the day. His 

 contributions were always welcome to aoy horticultural publica- 

 tion, and his books among the best selling of any published. He 

 was indefatiguable in his efforts to extend his business, courteous 

 and kindly in nature, and the inspiration of many a young gar- 

 dener and florist. 



C. W. GREENMAN. 



C. W. Greenman, died at Chatfield, Minn., Dec. 9th, 1889, 

 of congestion of the lungs, after an illness of five weeks. Mr. Green- 

 man, was born at Leanordsville, Madison Co., N. Y., on March 

 ni 11th, 1832. He removed from New York, to Wisconsin, 

 the year 1854. He was engaged in the nursery and fruit grow- 

 ing business at Miltoo, Wis., and Wanwatosa,, Wis. the greater 

 part of the time until 1884, when he removed to the state Minne- 

 sota, engaging in the same business at Chatfield, Fillmore Co. He 

 was regarded as one of the pioneer horticulturists of the North- 

 west, and the places where he has lived, will long be able to show 

 evidences of hio unselfish devotion and untiring energy in the de- 

 velopment of the art we love so well. He was an honored and 

 active member of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, from 

 its organization; a co-worker with J. M. Smith, S. Stickney, Geo. 

 J. Kellogg, G. P. Peffer, and J. C. Plumb, whose names have be- 

 come household words with us. He was a skillful propagator of 

 trees and plants, honest and up-right in all business transactions; 

 a public spirited citizen, and a kind hearted and affable friend 

 and neighbor. His works do live after him, and the world is bet- 

 ter for his having lived in it. He leaves a widow, and two daught- 

 ers, aged respectively 9 and 14 years, who has our heartfelt sym- 

 pathy in this their great bereavement. 



CHARLES A. CRANDALL. 



The silent reaper, death, has taken from our ranks a bright and 

 promising young man, from whom we hoped much; an uprighj. 

 citizen of Minnesota, a practical farmer and earnest and skillf u 



