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work was done. He established one of the most 

 famous vineyards in the South, besides building up 

 a reliable and well-known nursery business. He was 

 the acknowledged authority on the native wild grapes 

 of North America, and Bulletin No. 3, Division of 

 Pomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 

 "Classification and Generic Synop.sis of the Wild 

 Grapes of North America," which he wrote and which 

 was published in 1890, is one of the most painstaking 

 pieces of botanical work ever done in this country. It 

 made the way for his later and greater work on 

 "Grape-Culture." His horticultural and scientific work 

 in hybridizing and perfecting the American Vitis won 

 for him a diploma from the French Government in 

 1.8SS, and the decoration of the Legion of Honor 

 with the title of Chevalier du Merit Agricole for the 

 aid he had rendered France in viticultural matters. 

 He was also a member of the American Academy 

 of Science, the National .Agricultural Association of 

 France, vice-president of the American Pomological 

 Society, member of the American Breeders' Association, 

 the Association for the Advancement of Science, and 

 vice-president of the Texas Hortii-vdtural Association. 

 In 1903-4 he was a member of the Texas World's 

 Fair Association and the chairman of the committee 

 of Texas Industrial Institutes. He was also a mem- 

 ber of the jury of awards at the St. Louis Exposition 

 in 1904 and an honorary member of the American 

 Wine-Growers' Association and also a vice-president 

 of the Societ3- for Horticultural Science. 



The most complete botanical display of the whole 

 grape genus ever made was prepared by Dr. Munson 



and exhibited at the 

 World's Columbian 

 Exposition, Chicago, in 

 1893. This collection, 

 now in the Ignited 

 States Department of 

 Agriculture, will ever 

 be a striking record of 

 his wonderful patience, 

 painstaking care and 

 skill. His splendid 

 book "Foundations of 

 American Grape-Cul- 

 ture" is regarded as the 

 most practical, com- 

 plete and satisfactory 

 accovmt of the Ameri- 

 can grape yet i.ssued, 

 and is a lasting monu- 

 ment of his zeal, energy 

 and scientific investiga- 

 tion. He knew the 

 philosopher's stone, 

 and left a last message 

 to mankind to the effect that each individual should 

 strive to be as useful and as free from blemish as a tree 

 or a flower. G. B. Brackett. 



Nelson, A., pomologist, was born in Oneida County, 

 New York, September 8, 1830, and died at Lebanon, 

 Missouri, November 10, 1901. His early years were 

 spent on a farm, where he always took great interest 

 in horticulture. In 18.58, he moved to Buffalo, where 

 he engaged in the grain and coal business, .\fter 

 twenty-five years residence in that city, he went to 

 Lebanon, Missouri, as an agent of the Ozark Plateau 

 Land Company. JSIr. Nelson was a very enthusiastic 

 horticulturist, and was jiarticularly interested in apples, 

 being an authority on the varieties. He contributed to 

 all the great fruit exhibits of the state, and for many 

 years was treasurer of the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society. For portrait, and a fuller a<-count, see forty- 

 foirrth report of Missouri Horticultural Society, of 

 1901. 



1890. T. V. Munson. 



1891. J. S. Newman. 



Newman, James Stanley (Fig. 1891), was born De- 

 cember 1 1, 183.5, in Orange County, Virginia. He passed 

 his early life on the farm, working under the direction of 

 his father, a highly educated and skilful agriculturist. 

 In a jirivate home school he was prepared for the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia where 

 he studied four years, 

 1855-9. He served as 

 a Confederate soldier 

 in the Thirteenth Vir- 

 ginia Regiment. I'>om 

 186.5 to 1875, he farmed 

 and taught; from 1875 

 to 1883 he was con- 

 nected with the 

 Georgia State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, 

 preparing jtublications, 

 collecting agricultural 

 statistics, and direct- 

 ing experiments. For 

 nine years, he was pro- 

 fessor of agriculture 

 and director of the ex- 

 periment station of the 

 Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute, and for three 

 years president of the 

 Alabama State Agri- 

 cultural Society. For over twenty-five years he was a 

 life member of the American Pomological Society. 



When Clemson College, at the old farm home of 

 Jno. C. Calhoun, was organized in the early nineties. 

 Colonel Newman was elected professor of agriculture 

 and director of the agricultural department of that 

 institution. He resigned in 1894, and ran a truck farm 

 near .\tlanta until July, 1897, when he was called back 

 to Clemson College, where he served as professor of 

 agriculture and director of the agricultural department 

 and vice-director of the South Carolina Experiment 

 Station, and (for three years) director of farmers' 

 institutes, until his resignation in July, 1905. 



Colonel Newman was the author of "The Southern 

 Gardener's Practical Manual" and of several other 

 useful works on agriculture and hve-stock. 



The la.st five years of his life were passed, as he had 

 often expressed a wish thej- might be, in his own home, 

 amid the fruits and flowers he loved so well. He was 

 widely known in the South Atlantic States as a pioneer 

 in the cau.se of the new agricultural education and uplift. 

 He died at Walhalla, .South Carolina, May 11, 1910. 



WiM. S. Morrison. 



Olmsted, Frederick Law, landscape architect, was 

 born April 26, 1822, at Hartford, Connecticut, and died 

 .■\ugust 28, 1903. He was educated in private schools, 

 with private instructors in surveying and civil engineer- 

 ing. He was a special student at Yale College, a work- 

 ing student on crack farms, with seven years' farming 

 on his own farms. He took several trips abroad for 

 .study of many parks and fine private places. He was 

 superintendent and landscape architect of Central 

 Park practically in partnership with Calvert Vaux, a 

 young English architect who had been associated with 

 .\ndrew Jackson Downing (in his time the leading 

 landscape gardener of the L'nited States) most of the 

 time from 18.57 to 1878. From 1865 to 1872, he was 

 in partnership with Mr. Vaux and F. C. Withers, then 

 alone, and later with various other partners. Some of 

 his principal works were the parks of New York, 

 Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago (South Parks), Milwaukee, 

 Rochester, Louisville, Boston, Detroit, and many other 

 cities and towns, the United .States capitol grounds at 

 Washington, World's Fair at Chicago, the great estate 

 of George W. Vanderbilt at Biltmore, North Carolina, 

 and the grounds of many public and semi-public insti- 

 tutions and of private individuals. He wrote a number 



