290 A7i7ials of Horticiiliu7'e . 



and adaptability to the climate before it was placed upon the market. It 

 IS safe to say that no other nursery firm in the country pursued such a 

 course ; nor, indeed, is it now so necessary, since the United States govern- 

 ment and individual states, as well as some colleges, have established 

 experiment stations for the purpose of continuing just such work as the firm 

 of Ellwanger & Barry inaugurated forty years ago. 



Mr. Barry occupied numerous positions of prominence and trust in the 

 state and in the "flour city," and was identified with many enterprises 

 which have helped to make Rochester the prosperous city it now is. For 

 more than thirty years he was the president, and a most liberal patron of 

 the Western New York Horticultural Society, and in his last communica- 

 tion to that body, at its annual meeting in January last, he thus expressed 

 himself: "And now a word as to the presidency. You have given me 

 this post of honor for a very long period of years ; I am no longer able to 

 perform its duties, and lay it down with profound gratitude, and with an 

 affectionate regard for the society and every individual member." But the 

 assembled horticulturists with one voice declared that so long as Patrick 

 Barry was able to write "yours truly," so long he should be continued as 

 their president. 



In an editorial, a Rochester paper thus referred to Mr. Barry: "He 

 was a man of exceptionally strong character. The slightest contact with 

 him elicited some manifestation of personal power. He was straightfor- 

 ward in his methods, honorable in his purposes, and of an integrity that 

 would not tolerate even the suspicion of indiscretion. In private and 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." And the bishop of 

 the church with which Mr. Barry worshipped, as he stood by his casket, 

 thus beautifully made reference to the dead horticulturist: "This man 

 and the others associated with him raised the occupation to which they 

 devoted their life work to the dignity of a liberal profession, not manual or 

 clerical, but a profession that needed long years of study and careful appli- 

 cation. By intellectual labor and by extensive reading, he contributed to 

 make their profession worthy to be called one of the libeial professions — 

 raising those who were engaged in it above their fellow men ;" and again, 

 "he ruled in his household wisely, conscientiously, lovingly, as a man 

 should rule in it." 



Such was Patrick Barry, a man to whom every lover of horticulture 

 owes a debt of gratitude that can best be acknowledged by constant efforts 

 to perpetuate his example. 



He leaves a widow, one daughter and three sons. 



The portrait on page 289 is commended b_v W. C. Barry as 

 a good likeness of his late father. 



