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James D. Raynolds. 
We have the pleasure this month of pre- 
senting to the readers of Orchard and 
Oarden, the portrait of the gentlemen who 
has been named for the position of Chief of 
the Horticultural Department of the World’s 
Fair, by the American Nurserymen’s Asso- 
ciation, the American Seed Trade Associa- 
tion, the Society of American Florists, and 
numerous other Horticultural Societies and 
Associations. 
Mr. Raynolds was born at Massilon, Ohio, 
in 1846. His father removed to Chicago in 
1852, and after the subject of our sketch 
had passed through the public schools of 
that city, he went from the 
high school to Troy, N. Y., 
to attend the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute from 
which he graduated in 1870 
with the degree of Civil 
Engineer. 
His first professional 
work was on Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
immediately after that he 
was employed by the 
Riverside Improvement Co. 
at Riverside, 111., first in 
installing the water works 
and gas works, and then 
on the general work of lay- 
ing out roads and parks. 
Riverside is now Chicago’s 
most beautiful suburban 
town, being really a park 
with residen es placed 
therein. Mr. Raynolds has 
lived in Riverside almost 
continuously ever since, ex- 
cept for about a year devo- 
ted to railroad surveying, 
and another year in the 
service of the U. S. Govern- 
ment on a hydrographical 
survey of the upper tribu- 
taries of the Mississippi 
River. Tn the intervals he 
went into gardening, mere- 
ly for the love of it, but 
very soon became so ab- 
sorbed that the life of an 
engineer had no further 
attractions; rose-forcing in 
winter and growing fancy 
garden fruits and vegetables in the summer 
proving far more congenial occupations. Of 
course the inevitable result was that garden- 
ing for fun turned into gardening as a bus- 
iness, and for ten years back he has been 
principally engaged in growing roses for the 
wholesale market. Mr. Raynolds was one 
of the first members of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the village of Riverside, and he is 
now serving his fourth term, his previous 
training rendering him particularly useful 
in the departments of public works, and of 
roads and parks. 
That he has become of late years so well 
known to the horticultural fraternity is 
largely due to the perspicacity of Mr. E. G. 
Hill, who while President of the Society of 
American Florists, promptly recognized in 
him a man likely to be useful, and appoint- 
ed him on the Executive Committee. At the 
annual meetings of this committee, and at 
the conventions of the sc cietv he impressed 
his colleagues with a confidence in his good 
judgment, fair mindedness and general ex- 
ecutive and administrative ability, which 
resulted in their unanimous and enthusi- 
astic support of his candidacy for the Chief- 
tainship of the Horticultural Department of 
the World’s Fair. 
Mr. Raynolds is now Secretary of the 
Horticultural Society of Chicago, and for 
two terms held the Presidency of the Chi- 
cago Florists’ Club. His broadmindedness, 
and his absolute honor and integrity in the 
minutest detail, has won him the confidence 
of his associates to a marked degree. Should 
he be appointed to the position in which his 
friends hope to see him placed, we are as- 
sured of an able, fair-minded and successful 
administration of the department, one that 
will not force forward one interest at the 
expense of another, but give each full 
opportunity to make the most complete ex- 
position of its material resources. That 
such a man is needed at the head of the 
department all must admit. 
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This, we believe, is the first book 
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