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HORTICULTURISTS 



HORTICULTURISTS 



from active business he traveled for a number of years, 

 and in 1849 laid out a modest garden about his country 

 house in the suburbs of St. Louis, which, nine years 

 later, he extended so as to include some forty-five acres, 

 about half of this area constituting an arboretum. 



By special act of the General Assembly of the state 

 of Missouri, approved in March, 1859, Mr. Shaw was 

 empowered to provide for the conveyance of his 

 property, either during his life or after his demise, to 

 trustees, for the perpetual maintenance of his garden 

 as a scientific establishment. In 1885 he endowed a 

 department in Washington University, known as the 

 Henry Shaw School of Botany, and on his death left 

 nearly all of his property, valued at some $5,000,000, to 

 a board of trustees for the maintenance, improvement, 

 and enlargement of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Mr. Shaw, though not a botanist, was a lover of 

 plants for themselves and a firm believer in their 

 influence in molding desirable traits in human character. 

 His garden was always open to visitors, among whom 



he particularly wel- 

 comed the self-respect- 

 ing poor. Thirty years 

 before his death he 

 gave to the city of St. 

 Louis a park site ad- 

 jacent to his garden, 

 which, like the latter, 

 was improved under 

 his personal super- 

 vision. 



Special provisions in 

 Mr. Shaw's will, aside 

 from the general ar- 

 rangements for the 

 development of the 

 garden — in details of 

 which he allows his 

 trustees a very free 

 hand — are for an an- 

 nual sermon "on the 

 wisdom and goodness 

 of God as shown in 

 the growth of flowers, 

 fruits, and other products of the vegetable kingdom;" 

 premiums for an annual flower show; and two annual 

 banquets, respectively for the trustees and gardeners 

 of the institution. These banquets are the occasion 

 for annual gatherings of men distinguished in botany 

 and horticulture. See Vol. I, p. 531. Wm, Trblbase. 



Shepherd, Robert Ward, horticulturist, was born in 

 1848 and died at Montreal in November, 1912. For 

 nearly forty years Mr. Shepherd was closely and prom- 

 inently associated with the development of horticul- 

 ture in the province of Quebec. Although he was for 

 many years connected with the Ottawa River Naviga- 

 tion Company, his great love for horticulture was 

 always evident and early in his life he planted exten- 

 sive orchards at his home at Como on the Lake of the 

 Two Mountains. His specialty was apples and he grew 

 most of the varieties recommended for the province 

 of Quebec and was continuously testing new sorts. 

 His favorite variety was the Fameuse and he de\ eloped 

 a high-class trade with this variety in England, ship- 

 ping the fruit in special compartment cases. He 

 unceasingly advocated the planting of Fameuse m the 

 province of Quebec in preference to any other variety 

 on account of its high quality. He originated the 

 Rochelle apple, a promising hardy variety. As early 

 as 1877 he was a director of the Montreal Horticultural 

 Society and when the Quebec Pomological Society was 

 formed in 1893 he was one of the most active in its 

 organization. He was president of this Society in 1895 

 and again in 1906 and a director for many years, and 

 on many occasions prepared papers for the meetings. 



1899. Henry Shaw. 



He was Fruit Commissioner for the province of Quebec 

 at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, and on three 

 occasions was one of those who represented the province 

 of Quebec at Dominion Fruit Conferences. Because of 

 his prominence as a fruit-grower and his enthusiasm, he 

 was on many other occasions appointed on important 

 horticultural committees. \\r -p Macgdn. 



Shepherd, Mrs. Theodosia B., and her husband 

 were among the pioneers who left their homes in the 

 Middle West to settle in Cahfornia in the year 1873. 

 Mr. Shepherd was an attorney and in this new coun- 

 try found little use for his services. His wife rose to 

 the emergency and being of an artistic temperament, 

 manufactured works of art out of the fauna and flora 

 which she had collected. Her descriptive writings of 

 flowers are among the finest this country has produced. 

 The encouragement of Peter Henderson was incident to 

 her entering this field. In 1881, she sent him a package 

 of curiosities among which were a few choice flower 

 seeds grown in the open. He WTOte back saying that he 

 beheved Cahfornia would be the great seed- and bulb- 

 producing country of the world and that the conditions 

 were ideal. Some of the products of her labor are a 

 class of shrubby begonias of unequal vigor; a tea rose 

 called "Oriole;" the perfection of cosmos; nasturtiums, 

 Cahfornia poppies and others were increased in size 

 and beauty; the evolution of the petunia from a small 

 flower of dull color to those of mammoth size and beau- 

 tiful color. Mrs. Shepherd died September 6, 1906. 



Shinn, James, pioneer nurseryman, was born at 

 Salem, Ohio, September 29, 1807, and died October 

 29, 1896. He hved in several western and southern 

 states and moved to Cahfornia (from Texas) in 1855, 

 establishing an orchard and nursery at Niles. He had 

 studied and practised horticulture, had kept up a cor- 

 respondence with specialists and at once took rank 

 among the best-equipped men of the Pacific coast in 

 his line of work. His introductions of Persian walnuts, 

 Smyrna figs, Japanese plums and persimmons, the 

 carob, Uinshiu oranges and many ornamentals were 

 widely useful in the West and in the South as well as 

 in Cahfornia. His correspondence, and his newspaper 

 writings, were extensive; he helped to found, and led 

 in, the State Horticultural Society; his trials of new 

 fruits and plants were extensive and thorough, and 

 his cooperation with the experiment stations and with 

 agricultural education was active. For more than 

 forty years his influence broadened over the entire 

 Pacific coast region. He was, with the exception per- 

 haps of John Rock, the best known of Cahfornia 

 nurserymen. c. H. SniNiN. 



Smith, Andrew Murray, nurseryman, was born in 

 Brandon, Vermont, September 24, 1832. The family 

 removed to western New York in 1844, where Andrew 

 made the best of his rather brief opportunities at a dis- 

 trict school, and at Yabes Academy, Lockport. In 

 1852 -Andrew engaged in work for Mr. E. Mood}-, near 

 Lockport, and thus became acquainted with the 

 nursery business, in which he afterward associated 

 himself with Charles E. Woolverton, of Grimsby, 

 Ontario, under the title of Woolverton & Smith. Finding 

 a few old peach trees still bearing fruit in the garden of 

 Dennis Woolverton about the year 1857, the firm 

 decided to plant an orchard of six hundred trees, in 

 addition to their nursery stock. The venture proved 

 so successful that farmers about followed their example 

 to such an e.xtent that this Niagara District is now 

 known as the "Peach Garden of Ontario." Mr. Smith 

 continued the nursery business at Grimsby, Niagara 

 and St. Catharines until the year 1900, when he retired 

 at the age of seventy. He was one of tiie first members 

 of the Fruit-Growers' Association of Ontario which was 

 formed in 1859 and continued his active membership 

 until his decease at St. Catharines, Ontario, October 



