CHAPTER XXIV. 



CONTRIBUTORS' PORTRAITS. 

 BIOGRAPHY. 



/ have always observed that the most generous ; most intel- 

 ligent^ most progressive -, most ttpright and most useful men 

 are to be found in the ranks of those interested in horticul- 

 ture, and too much honor cannot be done them by their fellow 

 citizens. TIM. 



QACATTERED through this little book will be seen the 

 \^ portraits of many well-known gentlemen, living 

 and dead, who are, or have been, prominently 

 identified with the cultivation of berries, either for the 

 fruit or for the propagation and introduction of fruit - 

 bearing plants, and it gives me real pleasure to be able 

 to present to the general public pictures of these 

 honorable and eminent men-, and at the same time to 

 give the reader bits of their wisdom and experience 

 in the berry business. 



This gentleman was born at Newburgh, N. Y., in 1828, and 

 lives near there now (at Middlehope). He is greatly interested 

 WM. D. BARNS in fruit, and was a pioneer in the use of the 

 Bordeaux mixture in the spraying of grapes. He contributes 

 cf his store of knowledge to the purpose of this book. Page 44. 



Of this gentleman it can almost be said that he was <; born 

 in a berry field," having cultivated strawberries for over forty-one 

 years, or since he was nine years old. He grows and takes to Phila- 

 ROBT. H. GILLIN delphia, from the adjoining county of 

 Montgomery, the finest strawberries ever seen in the Philadel- 

 phia markets, and he and his father have done this for over fifty 

 years. His cousin, Oscar Felton, is famous as a fruit grower, 

 and originated the Feltcn strawberry. Page 93. 



