1568 



HORTICULTURISTS 



HORTICULTURISTS 



life member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 in 1852 and did much excellent work for the society in 

 the matter of judging fruits and vegetables, and making 

 creditable exhibits. In 1857 his firm was awarded a 

 silver medal for its display of "Sixty Varieties of Beans, 

 all neatly and correctly labelled." He was diligent in 

 business, a fluent conversationalist, a ready writer, an 

 earnest lecturer and a man whose judgment and advice 

 on horticultural topics was earnestly sought. 



G. B. Brackett. 



Bush, Isador, nurseryman and pioneer grape-grower, 

 was born in 1822 at Prague, Bohemia. He died in the 

 city of St. Louis, Missouri, August 5, 1898, having been 

 a resident there for more than fifty years. In 1865, he 

 established a grape nursery at the place he named 

 Bushburg, Missouri, and devoted himself to the culti- 

 vation of this specialty with marked enthusiasm and 

 success. He soon had a collection of all known species 

 and varieties of our native grapes and with the assist- 

 ance of the eminent botanist, George Engelmann, a 

 very complete classification of various species was made 

 and their characteristics were fully described in his 

 valuable pubUcation, the "Bushburg Catalogue and 

 Grape Manual." It was through the enterprise of Mr. 

 Bush that our immune grape roots were sent to Europe 

 for the purpose of grafting the vinifera varieties upon 

 them, and thus the ravages of phylloxera were pre- 

 vented. The American grape industry owes a debt of 

 lasting gratitude to the pioneer work of Mr. Bush. 



G. B. Brackett. 



Butz, George C, horticulturist and educator, was 

 born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, on February 1, 

 1863, of Swiss parentage, and died December 14, 1907. 

 He was prepared for college at the New Castle High 

 School and graduated from Pennsylvania State College 

 in 1883. The following year he became an instructor 

 in the preparatory department of the college; in 1887 

 he was elected to the position of assistant professor of 

 horticulture, and in 1903 he was made professor of 

 horticulture. During many years, he was also a lec- 

 turer at the farmers' institutes of the state, nursery 

 inspector and adviser for the State Department of 

 Agriculture, and horticulturist of the State Experiment 

 Station. He is the author of a number of valuable bul- 

 letins and other publications upon subjects relating to 

 his life work. A natural love for plants from his boy- 

 hood made Professor Butz an apt pupil and determined 

 his life work. He was an authority on horticultural 

 subjects. His opinion on the culture of grapes, peaches, 

 ginseng and carnations was much sought after by state 

 authorities, and his writings upon these subjects were 

 highly valued. 



Intellectually Professor Butz was a man of culture 

 and broad horizon. His mental operations were pain.s- 

 taking, methodical, exact. Notwithstanding his fife- 

 long practical experience in horticulture, he was a care- 

 ful student of its rapidly developing hterature and 

 brought to his work the combined products of observa- 

 tion and wide reading. Always devoted to duty, cheer- 

 fully making the best of adverse conditions, spending 

 himself unstintedly for the welfare of his college and of 

 his state, his fife of high ideals and unselfish service was 

 an inspiration to all who knew him. j^ l Watts. 



Campbell, George Washington, horticulturist, was 

 born in Cortland County, New York, January 12, 1817, 

 and died at Delaware, Ohio, August, 1898. He is best 

 known as the introducer of the Delaware grape. He 

 originated and improved numerous other varieties of 

 grapes, among which are Campbell's Early and Lady. 

 For a fuller account, see "Cyclopedia of American 

 Agriculture," Vol. IV, p. 560. 



Carman, Elbert S. (Fig. 1874), agricultural editor and 

 experimenter, was born on Long Island in 1836 and 

 died in 1901. He was educated at Brown University and 



1874. Elbert S. Carman. 



after graduating was in business for a number of years. 

 Always interested in gardening and fruit-growing, he 

 finally associated with the late Andrew S. Fuller in 

 conducting the "Rural New Yorker." A Uttle later Mr. 

 Carman bought the paper and estabUshed in connection 

 with it the Rural Experiment Grounds in New Jersey. 

 Here he tested with great care the varieties of farm and 

 garden seeds offered by seedsmen. At that time, the 



ordinary seed 

 catalogue was 

 filled with gross 

 exaggeration in 

 text and illustra- 

 tion. Mr. Car- 

 man's accurate 

 reports were 

 largely instru- 

 mental in start- 

 ing a genuine 

 reform in cata- 

 logue-making. 

 Later he spent 

 much time at 

 hybridizing and 

 selecting new 

 varieties of pota- 

 toes, grains and 

 flowers. His 

 most notable 

 achievement in 

 this fine was the 

 famous family of Carman potatoes, including the Rural 

 New Yorker No. 2. At one time, it is probable that 

 there were more of this variety grown than of any other 

 Itnown sort. In the markets today, the larger number 

 of round, thick potatoes are known and sold as "Rurals." 

 As a farm journalist, Mr. Carman was very successful, 

 giving power and individual character to his paper. 

 He wrote one book "The New Potato Culture" in 

 which he recorded his exhaustive experiments with 

 fertiUzers, preparation of seed and methods of culture. 



H. W. COLLINGWOOD. 



Carr, Robert, was born in the parish of St. Andrews, 

 County of Downs, in the north of Ireland, in 1767. He 

 was but eight years old when he was brought to Phila- 

 delphia. In later years, William Bartram, proprietor 

 of the celebrated Bartram Gardens became his friend, 

 and later his father-in-law. At the death of Mr. Bar- 

 tram, Mr. Carr continued the business of the Gardens, 

 which were the cradle of botany and horticulture on 

 the American continent. The Gardens gave these 

 sciences a distinguished position in the literature of the 

 old world, and they were also the pride of every Phila- 

 delphian for a great many years. At the formation of 

 the first society of horticulture in 1827, Colonel Carr 

 was a charter member, and in 1834 he was made its 

 vice-president, a position he held until the time of his 

 death, which occurred in 1866. (j_ g Brackett. 



Cobbett, William (1762-1835), the once-famous 

 English author, had two periods of enforced residence 

 in America, and wrote "The American Gardener," 

 which is one of the spiciest books in the whole history of 

 American horticulture. He was of thorough Saxon 

 ancestry, and while a gardener's lad and during eight 

 years of military service, made strenuous efforts at 

 self-education. In 1792 his personal hberty was endan- 

 gered by the publication of "The Soldier's Friend" (an 

 appeal for an increase of pay), and he came to Phila- 

 delphia in the autumn of that year. His first success 

 was a pamphlet entitled, "Observations on Dr. 

 Priestly's Emigration," a bitter attack on the French 

 Revolution. He took the loyahst side in American 

 politics, and is regarded as the founder of the American 

 party press. His attack on Benjamin Rush, the leading 

 physician of Philadelphia, for his advocacy of unhmited 



