STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. ISS' 



The following list of books and papers by him are deserving of a 

 place in this brief sketch of his life: "Notes on the Trees and 

 Shrubs of Europe," "Russian Fruits," said to be the best descrip- 

 tion extant of Russian apples imported by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in 1870, "Hardy Fruits for the Cold Noith," 

 "Nomenclature of Russian Apples " 



PATRICK BARRY. 



Just as we are going to press the sad news of another pomologist's 

 death reaches us. His name has long been identified with fruit 

 growing in this country-, and in no one engaged in the propagatior> 

 of fruit has the public had greater confidence than in the firm of 

 which he was the senior member. The following clipping is from 

 the Rochester Post Express : 



One of the leading citizens of Rochester, Patrick Barry, has 

 passed away. 



For many years he has been identified with the business of the 

 city in various ways, and was as powerful a factor in its growth and 

 prosperity as any individual man might be. 



Though he was active in financial affairs, and as one of the owners 

 of the street railway system, which has become the means of keeping 

 all parts of our wide-spread city in easy communication, his greatest 

 work was done in the nursery business. He was one of the founders 

 of a firm which has long taken rank among the largest nursery houses 

 in the world, and so contributed not only to the beauty and prosperity 

 of Western New York, but to the improvement of the whole country. 

 His influence has been felt wherever fruits and flowers are grown. 



Mr. Barr}' was a man of exceptionally strong character. The 

 slightest contact with him elicited some manifestation of personal 

 power. He was straightforward in his methods, honorable in his 

 purposes, and of an integrity that would not tolerate even the sus- 

 picion of indiscretion. In private affairs and in public affairs he was 

 a stern, aggressive personality whose influence went always for what 

 was honest, genuine, and true, and in his loss the community loses 

 not simply an individual life but a moral force. 



Mr. Barry had great abilities. He was not only a master of busi- 

 ness details, a worker of exact habits and untiring industry, and a 

 man of enterprise and financial courage ; but he was one equipped 



