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POMOLOGY, GARDENmC, FORESTRY, HOKTICPLTPRE , RDRAL ARCHITECTURE, BEES. 



Vol. II. Des Moines, Iowa; Leavenworth, Kan., Oct., 1871. 



No. 



10 



jailor and PiMislur. 



MARK MILLEK, 



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UR. .1. STAYMAN, 



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Leavenworf/i, Kansas. 



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Hon. Itlarshall P. firilder. 



President of the American Ibmotogical Society 



The subject of our sketch was born September 

 23, 1798, in I he town of Rindge. N. H. At the age 

 of four years he entered the common school, and 

 when twelve years of age entered the academy at 

 New Ipswich, where he spent one year, which with 

 three years subsequent study with the village par- 

 son appears to have completed his scholastic educa- 

 tion. At the age of sixteen years his father gave 

 him the choice of three pursuits — to enter college 

 and there fit himself for the study and pursuit of 

 some one of the professions, of becoming a mer- 

 chant, or of working on the farm. " He chose the 

 latter, and followed it long enough to gain that firm 

 health and constitution which is, no doubt, the se- 

 cret of the mental and physical energy which has 

 since characterized his long and useful life." After 

 a time, however, his father's business I had so 

 increased as to require his assistance, and he return- 

 ed to the store of his father, whence he had gone 

 out to pursue the life of a farmer. 



As a merchant he has been one of the successful 

 number. At this profession he acquired a business 

 tact in early life, to which he no doubt owes his 

 success in after years as a merchant. But it is with 

 his life as a cultivator of fruits and flowers that we 

 are more directly interested, as an accompaniment 

 to a periodical like the Pomoldgibt and Gardener. 

 Through all of his earlier life Mr. Wilder showed a 

 special fondness for their cultivation. Among flow- 

 ers the Camellia seemed to absorb a great portion 

 of his attention, having engaged in hybridizing 

 this beautiful flower to a very considerable extent. 



Among fruits, the pear seemed to lead him to 

 greater lengths in planting and testing, than any 

 other. While he cultivated other fruits to a con- 

 siderable extent, the pear, nevertheless with him, 

 was a specialty. He has introduced from abroad 

 more trees of this fruit, has tested them upon a lar- 

 ger scale, and has been more successful in produc- 

 ing fine specimens, than perhaps any other single 

 cultivator. 



At the organization of the American Pomological 

 Society, in 1848, Mr. Wilder was elected President 

 —an office to which he has been unanimously re- 

 elected biennially from that time to this. And it is 

 owing in a very great degree to his ability— to his 

 indomitable energy in, and his ardent love for horti- 

 cultural pursuits, that have placed the American 

 Pomological Society upon the high eminence 

 where it now stands— a beacon light to guide the 

 anxious pomological lover into the way to success. 

 We should be pleased to speak in detail of the 

 many honorable positions of trust and honor, both 

 civil and military, to which Mr. Wilder has been 

 Ciilled from time to time, would the limits of a mag- 

 azine article like this permit. 



Mr. Wilder has now entered upon his 74th year 

 of age— being 73 on the 23d of September last. 

 For a man of his age Mr. Wilder still retains his 

 physical and mental faculties to a remarkable de- 

 gree—his step is still elastic and his mind uncloud- 

 •"^ May the life which has dispensed so many 



blessings in such a diversity of ways, and to so 

 many persons, be continued to bless many more. 

 But when his sun shall set behind the horizon of 

 life, may it go down as peacefully as it has been 

 useful. 



