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important literar}^ work is the Fruit Garden, which first ap- 

 peared many years ago, and which in its revised edition is one 

 of our best and most popular books upon fruit culture. All 

 his work was strong and inspiring. His memory will long 

 remain a great inspiration to horticulturists. 



For more than thirty years and until his death, Mr. Barry 

 was president of the Western New York Horticultural Society; 

 he was also president of the New York Agricultural Society, 

 and one of the board of control of the State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station ; president of the Rochester City & 

 Brighton Railroad Co., of the Flour City National Bank, 

 Mechanics Savings Bank, Rochester Gas Co. and Powers 

 Hotel Co. 



The following tribute is from John Hall, secretary of the 

 Western New York Horticultural Society, of which Mr. Barry 

 was so long president. It first appeared in The Af?ierican 

 Garden for August : 



It is impossible to do full justice to the life and work of Mr. Barry. He 

 was born in Ireland, near the city of Belfast, in 1816. After receiving a 

 liberal education, he emigrated to this country at the age of twenty years. 

 Entering the employ of the Princes, of Flushing, -Long Island, as a clerk, 

 he devoted his time and energies to his chosen occupation, and in the 

 remarkably short space of four years had acquired a very thorough knowl- 

 edge of the nursery business as it then existed. 



In 1840 he moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he formed a partnership 

 with George Ellwanger. The young firm started business with seven acres 

 of land, known as the Mount Hope nurseries, and now of world-wide repu- 

 tation. The young horticulturists of to-day find themselves the possessors 

 of an inheritance secured to them through the privations and vexations of 

 years of patient and persistent effort by the firm with which the late Mr. 

 Barry was identified. 



In those early days these pioneers found themselves in a new country, 

 possessing no collections of fruit, with no telegraphic or cable facilities, 

 with no railroads or fast ocean steamers, and separated from the Old World 

 by a distance which then required almost as many weeks to traverse as days 

 now suffice. Necessarily, therefore, many weeks and months were spent in 

 the effort to procure new stocks, both in Germany and France, which, when 

 gathered, were transported to the sea-ports by stage coach, and thence con- 

 veyed by sailing vessels to the New World. When the young firm started 

 to budding trees they were sneered at, and called fools and lunatics for their 

 pains. Such were some of the difficulties encountered by these men in the 

 efforts to introduce new stocks into this country. But they persevered, and 

 Mr. Barry was identified with the growth of horticulture to the present 

 time, having succeeded in giving to the American people the most desirable 

 plants that can be successfully grown upon its soil. Every new apple and 

 pear was imported from abroad and tested, in order to determine its quality 



