CONTRIBUTORS' PORTRAITS, 



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Born in 1834 in New York City, and mingling with the world 

 as assistant in a publisher's office, and afterwards in the jewelry 

 business in New York and St. L/ouis for forty years. Mr. Haw- 

 J. R. HAWKINS kins then became intimately associated with 

 Mr. Charles Downing, and he was well acquainted with the late 

 Rev. E. P. Roe. He is the originator of the Banquet strawberry 

 and has many other seedlings on trial. Page 95. 



This gentleman was born April, 1846, 

 and is, therefore, forty-eight years old. 

 Previous to 1882, he was a travelling sales- 

 man, but, his health failing, he engaged in 

 D. BRANDT farming at Bremen, Ohio, 

 making the strawberry a specialty, and 

 during the past twelve years fruiting and 

 testing about 350 varieties, devoting much 

 time to seedlings. He is the originator 

 of the Fountain strawberry. 



D. BRANDT. 



This name is well known in New 



England, where its owner has been prominent in horticultural 

 circles for years. He it was who introduced the Beverly 

 strawberry, naming the variety after his own town. He is sixty- 

 BENJ. M. SMITH one years of age, and half of his life has been 

 occupied in strawberry culture. Mr. Smith is an interesting 

 man, and his berry experience given in this book adds much 

 to the value of the work. 



This worthy representative of the Eastern Shore was born 

 in Maryland in 1867, and has continued 

 near his birthplace ever since. When he 

 was eighteen he borrowed fifteen dollars 

 with which he bought 3,000 strawberry 

 plants. This was the foundation of a 

 W F. ALLEN, JR. business which has 

 grown to large ^proportions, as he now 

 cultivates three hundred acres from which 

 the gross receipts last year were over 

 $18,000.00. Mr. Allen is a large grower of 

 the L,ucretia dewberry of which he has 

 forty acres in cultivation. In planning: his 



farm and office work, Mr. Allen has the active and intelligent 



assistance of bis estimable wife. 



w. F. ALLEN, JR. 



