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AMERICAN P0M0E0GICAE SOCIETY 
an ardent student of fruit culture. He did yeoman service in behalf of 
better legislation for the support of the horticultural societies in both Vir- 
ginia and Oregon. Though best known among men as a physician, econo- 
mist and public welfare worker, Dr. Robinson accomplished In these later 
years of life quite as much for horticulture as falls to the lot of most 
men to accomplish during a whole life time. He was bom in Franklin, 
Pennsylvania, April 3, 1838, and died in Washington, D. O. October 9, 1913. 
Many warm friends from all parts of the nation felt deeply shocked and 
saddened when the wires of last October announced the death of this 
splendid man of peaceful deeds, and it is with a feeling of deepest regrets 
that this society records here its last tribute to his sterling qualities as la 
man and his interest in pomology. 
