JUDGE JAMES MARSH CLARK, 



Whose portrait is given on this page, was born in New York City, 

 December 8th, 1810, and has been an earnest, enthusiastic horticulturist 

 all his life. He inherited a love for this calling from a long line of 

 ancestry, dating back prior to the days of the American Revolution. At 

 an early age he had charge of the planting of an orchard for his uncle in 

 New Jersey. A little later he pushed westward, and in 1828 planted 



quite an extensive orchard in Indiana. A few years later, in pursuit of 

 health, he moved to Wisconsin, and was among the earliest planters in 

 that State first at Fon-du-lac, in 1840, for a friend ; near Madison, in 1841, 

 for himself ; and afterwards near Baraboo, in 1847. At this last named 

 place he resided twenty years, and achieved such remarkable success 

 as an amateur fruit grower that in a few years he was able to show 

 one hundred varieties of apples alone grown in that trying climate. 



