PETER HENDERSON. 



BORN IN PATHHEAD, SCOTLAND. DIED IN JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

 JUNE 9, 1822 JANUARY 17, 189O. 



'T'HE 17th of January, 1890, will be a date forever 

 * memorable in the annals of American horticulture; 

 for, on the morning of that day, at half past ten o'clock, 

 at his home in Jersey City, a gray haired man lay dead; 

 a man who although long past the meridian of life was 

 when death touched him still in the zenith of his fame. 



A man whose peaceful achievements had won for him 

 an illustrious name throughout the land of his adoption, 

 and who by his wise counsel, cheering words, and unselfish 

 aid, had endeared himself to thousands of his fellow -men. 



Crowning all, by a life so true, a character so lofty, 

 that his steadfast friend John Thorpe* voiced the feel- 

 ings of a multitude when he declared "that to have 

 known him was an honor." That gray haired man was 

 Peter Henderson. 



Half an hour after his death the sad fact was flashed, 

 not only over this continent, but to other lands, where 

 also the echoes of his fame had sped, and strong men 

 and gentle women wept even as his kindred, at the 

 termination of a career in whose unsullied glory two 

 continents had a share. 



That Peter Henderson died universally regretted, the 

 gardening world already knows ; but that his passing 



♦ "Father" and first President of the Society of American Florists. 



