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HORTICULTURISTS 



HORTICULTURISTS 



Elliot, Wyman, pioneer horticulturist, was bom in 

 Corinna, Maine, May 19, 1834, and died in Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota, June 16, 1913. As a boy he helped his 

 father about a grist-mill and on the farm and at odd 

 times helped his mother in the fruits and flower-garden, 

 where he laid the foundation of his horticultural 

 career. At the age of twenty the family went to Minne- 

 apohs, then a town of fifteen or twenty famihes. They 

 purchased land and Mr. Elhot began raising vegetables 

 and farm products. He was the first market-gardener 

 in Minneapohs. In 1855 he took up a claim near Monti- 

 cello in Wright County among the Indians, being one of 

 the first farmers to till soil west of the Mississippi. In 

 1856 he returned to Minneapohs and took charge of 

 the home place. He continued in the market-gardening 

 business here for twenty-five years. He added fruits 

 and ornamental stock to his crops and the place was 

 known as the Minneapohs Garden Nursery for many 

 years. By 1862 Mr. Elhot had built up a good market- 

 gardening business. In 1864 he added a greenhouse and 

 grew flowers and plants for sale. In 1866 a tree nursery 

 was started and for many years suppUed Minneapohs 

 with trees, fruits and flowers. Many of the trees he 

 planted will adorn the Minneapohs streets for many 

 years and be a lasting monument to him. 



In 1864 he helped organize the Hennepin County 

 Horticultural Society and in 1866 helped organize and 

 was a charter member of the State Horticultural 

 Society. He was several times vice-president of the 

 State Agricultural Society and held some office in the 

 State Horticultural Society from its organization in 

 1866 until his death, serving as member of the executive 

 committee, president si.x years, and from 1892 until 

 his death he was chairman of the executive committee. 

 Always of a quiet, unassuming character, he did work 

 of untold value to the horticultural interests of the 

 state. Le Roy Cady. 



Elliott, Franklin Reuben, died at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 February, 1878. To him is due the honor of first sug- 

 gesting and earnestly advocating the formation of 

 state horticultural societies. He was secretary and a 

 charter member of the Missouri Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, 1859; secretary of American Pomological 

 Society, 1867, and a valued officer of the Ohio State 

 Horticultural Society. He was a man of great ability 

 in horticultural matters, and was the author of the 

 "Fruit Book" and a well-known treatise on "Landscape 

 Gardening." He was a valued contributor to the 

 horticultural press at a day when American horti- 

 culture most needed advice. (j. g, Brackett. 



EUwanger, George, nurseryman, was born in Ger- 

 many on December 2, 1816. His youth was spent in his 

 father's vineyards where he acquired a love of horti- 

 culture and determined to devote his Ufe to it. To this 

 end, he studied horticulture in one of the leading insti- 

 tutions of Stuttgart. He came to the United States 

 in 1835, and in 1839 settled at Rochester, New York. 

 The next year he and Patrick Barry entered into part- 

 nership forming the nursery and seed firm, EUwanger 

 & Barry. Mr. EUwanger was a member of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, the Western New York 

 Horticultural Society, and a corresponding member of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultitfal Society. He died on 

 November 26, 1906. 



Emory, Robert Samuel, pomologist, was born April 

 2, 1832, near Centerville, on the Chester River, Mary- 

 land, and died June 2, 1906. His father was a lifelong 

 agriculturist, carrying on that • occupation most suc- 

 cessfully until his death. Robert when a boy attended 

 the pubHc school, and later spent four years as a student 

 in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After- 

 ward he was employed as clerk in a wholesale drug- 

 store in Pittsburgh, studying pharmacy, receiving a 

 diploma, and remaining with the firm until he was 



twenty-one. He then returned home and engaged in 

 agricultural work. In 1860, he settled near Chester- 

 town, where he began the culture of fruit for market, 

 on a considerable scale. He soon came to be regarded 

 as an authority on all subjects connected with the pro- 

 duction of fruit. His orchards comprised extensive 

 plantings of pears and peaches, with a specialty of 

 pears, and probably he raised more of this variety of 

 fruit than any one east of Cahfornia. In his orchard 

 there were about 20,000 trees in bearing condition. His 

 reputation as a skilful fruit-grower gained for him 

 prominence, and his place on the Chester was the 

 frequent resort of those concerned in fruit-culture from 

 all sections desirous to see for themselves his well- 

 managed orchards, to learn his methods, and to profit 

 by his experience, the results of his own endeavors at 

 individual research. In 1S77, he was awarded the first 

 prize for the best twenty-one varieties of pears by the 

 American Pomological Society. 



When the San Jose scale appeared in the East, he 

 was among the first to recognize it as a deadly enemy, 

 but by applying whale-oil soap saved his orchards until 

 other remedies were discovered. All scientists were 

 cordially welcomed to his home and orchards, enjoying 

 the advantage which his experiences could give them. 

 Captain Emory became a member of the Peninsula 

 Horticultural Society a few years after it was organized 

 and served as president during one year. 



E. W. Emory. 



Ernst, Andrew H., nurseryman and pomologist, 

 was born in Germany in the year 1796. He was proprie- 

 tor of one of the earliest established and best nurseries 

 in Ohio. He was a pioneer and champion of pomology 

 in Ohio and the Northwest. Mr. Ernst estabUshed 

 Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, one of the most 

 beautiful cemeteries in the United States. He was vice- 

 president of the American Pomological Society and 

 president of the Ohio Pomological Society from 1847 

 until his death, which occurred on February 13, 1860. 



Evans, James Calvin, one of the pioneer fruit-growera 

 of the Mississippi Valley and for years one of the lead- 

 ing horticulturists of that section, was born in Jackson 

 County, Missouri, April 25, 1833 and died in 1909. 

 He was of a strictly pioneer family in western Missouri, 

 being the son of Wm. B. Evans, who died in 1855, and 

 nephew of the late Col. Milton McGee, so well and 

 honorably known in the annals of Kansas City. In 

 1861 he acquired an extensive home plantation, in 

 what is now North Kansas City. Being passionately 

 fond of horticulture, he began its adornment and the 

 development of extensive fruit-plantations. At the age 

 of twenty-six he became a charter member of the Mis- 

 souri Fruit Growers Association, organized in Jefferson 

 City in 1859, its name being changed to the Missouri 

 State Horticultural Society in 1862. This is the oldest 

 permanent horticultural organization west of the Missis- 

 sippi. He was elected president of this society in 1876 

 and served efficiently in this capacity for more than 

 twenty years. He was also a charter member of the 

 Missouri Valley Horticultural Society organized in 

 1868, and served as its president for twenty-three years. 

 He was also a hfe member of the American Pomological 

 Society and other horticultural bodies, which he has 

 served from time to time as an officer or on important 

 committees. In 1883 he organized the Olden Fruit 

 Company and began planting the famous 1,400-acre 

 orchard at Olden, which was the first extensive com- 

 mercial orchard in the Ozark region. Due to the suc- 

 cess of this enterprise and largely through his advice 

 as to varieties and methods of orchard management 

 foimd to be best adapted to that section, scores of 

 extensive orchards began to be planted in the Ozarks. 

 On his home plantation at Kansas City as well as at 

 Olden, he maintained large areas for testing the 

 adaptabihty of varieties of fruits to the western sec- 



