154 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



US all of iate years, on account of the interesting experiments witb 

 Russian and other hardy fruits which he has carried out there. 



''In 1873 he naade repeated trips to the United States, studying 

 the pomology of that country, bringing everything worthy of trial to 

 his farm, not merely in sufficient quantities to stock his own farm, 

 but also enough to make free distributions of trees and plants to his^ 

 neighbors. 



"In 1882 Mr Gibb, in company with Professor Budd of the Iowa 

 Agricultural College, went to Russia in quest of the most hardy fruits 

 which might be expected to endure the extremes of temperature ta 

 which the northern parts of Canada and the United States are sub- 

 ject. Professor Budd had already made a large collection of hardy 

 fruits at Ames, but so little was definitely known of the names and 

 values of the various Russian fruits that it seemed necessarj- that 

 some one should go to Russia charged with this errand. Speaking 

 of it afteiward Mr. Gibb, with his characteristic modesty, said, 



'• 'Noithern horticulturists were looking with great hopes to Rus- 

 sian fruits. The work could not be allowed to rest. Some one 

 must go to Russia; Mr. Budd and 1 went.' 



''Mr. Gibb, it is well worth noting, took this costly journey at his 

 own expense. This trip was followed by importations of trees and 

 seeds which were distributed to the members of the different Fruit 

 Growers Associations of the Province of Quebec, and seeds of 

 which were sent to the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, and to the 

 Botanic Garden at Montreal. 



"In 1887 he went alone over the same ground, to verify his 

 previous work, visiting in addition, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 

 Other trips were made in the interests of horticulture to the North- 

 West, British Columbia, California, etc., and in July, 1889, he left 

 for his last one around the world, taking in especially Japan, China^ 

 India and other countries. 



"Freighted with much valuable information, he was on his way 

 home when his death occurred on the eighth of March last, in Egypt. 

 He contracted la grippe at Aden, which developed into double 

 pneumonia. His remains were interred in the British Protestant 

 Cemetery at Carlo, on the tenth, the funeral being attended by 

 several friends. 



"Cut off in the prime of life, his life work apparently only fairly 

 begun, he has yet left many works which will be a lasting monument 

 to his memory." 



