MEMORIAL OF PATRICK BARRY. 217 



The INIftssachiisotts Horticultural Society desires to express and 

 to place on record its high appreciation of the services in the field 

 of horticulture, of the late Patrick Barry, of Rochester, N.Y., 

 a Corresponding Member of this Society. 



More than forty years ago Mr. Barry entered upon his work as 

 a nurseryman at a time when the business was in its infancy at 

 the West. Since then, in connection with his partner, he has 

 pursued the profession with such skill, enterprise, and integrity as 

 to place the house in the front rank, and to give it a world-wide 

 reputation. And this credit and success have been won without a 

 resort to extravagant descriptions of "novelties," but rather by 

 a judicious selection and production of articles of sterling merit 

 which might with reason be expected to benefit the public. Yet, 

 valuable as Mr. Barr3''s woi'k has been in the distribution of im- 

 mense quantities of trees and plants for so long a period, it is 

 probable tliat his public services will be regarded as of still more 

 importance. As Chairman of the Fruit Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, Mr. Barry was called upon to catalogue 

 and arrange the entire list of varieties of fruits recommended for 

 general (;ultivation in North America. The ability and thorough- 

 ness with which he commenced and completed this task, embracing 

 every State in the Union, and also the Dominion of Canada, is 

 recognized by fruit cultivators as a permanent monument to his 

 praise. 



As editor of "The Horticulturist," succeeding the honored 

 Downing, and as an author and frequent writer upon Fruit Cult- 

 ure, Ml'. Barry has also obtained a deservedly high reputation. 

 Of his success in other departments of life it is not our province 

 to speak. In whatever he engaged he played his part well. We 

 honor his memory while we mourn his loss. And while we extend 

 to his family our sympath}' in their sorrow, we must also add our 

 congratulations on their rich inheritance of his example — a well- 

 spent life. 



Robert Manning seconded the motion to adopt the memorial, 

 and said that on the departure of a friend whom he had long 

 known, his mind always went back to the time of their first meet- 

 ing, and to a review of their long friendship. He had a vivid 

 recollection of the occasion when he first met Mr. Barry. It was 

 when the Pomological Garden at Salem — which was established 

 by the father of the speaker — was a place to which pilgrimages 



