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NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
§3.00 PER YEAR. 
Single 1 Y 0 ., Eiglit Cents 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 8,1870 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by TX I). T. Moore, in the Clerk’s Olllce of the District Court of the United States for tile Southern District of Now York.] 
but soon tiring of the confined limits of a 
town residence, he purchased one hundred 
and seventy-five acres of land about five 
miles west of the city, situated immediately 
upon the Lake Shorn, and removed where 
he could gather about him the tree, plant 
and flower of Ids love, which, unrestricted 
by want ot' space, were made to develop 
growth and bear flower and fruit in such 
abundance and beauty as to make him and 
his cultural acts the wonder and admiration 
of all, 
Here, while at limes continuing his pro¬ 
fessional labors, lie has found time to exam¬ 
ine and describe all the fishes of the lakes 
and of Ohio's rivers—to collect and compare 
innumerable fresh water shells—connected 
with which he made a discovery in science 
new and distinct, viz, * the sexual character, 
male and female, of the muscle, ami widt h 
is indicated by tlie form of the shell. This 
account was published in the twenty-sixth 
volume of Silliiuan’s Journal, lie found 
time to examine the native wild plants, 
botanically; to examine and study the geo¬ 
logical formation of the State; to study and 
gather the fowls of the air by hundreds. lie 
has investigated the habits of the honeybee, 
has found time to superintend and direct a 
large farm, on which all the best grains and 
grasses, and the best breeds of cattle, sheep, 
hogs, &c., have been tried and compared, 
comparative values of manures tested and 
their components analyzed. Here he has 
sown seeds and grown thousands of fruits 
and flowers, lias planted, grafted and budded 
varieties without number, pruned and cared 
for them until they matured their fruits in 
perfection, and then, alter a record thereof, 
he has sought to improve, by new crosses 
and new sowings of seeds, until his superior 
productions of the cherry, pear and, latterly, 
of the tree pceonias and magnolias, have be¬ 
come known to almost every fruit grower in 
this country, and are recorded most favor¬ 
ably in the horticultural journals of the Old 
World. 
Of his political and professional honors 
and positions we shall only make brief note, 
inasmuch as they have 
rattier been (.hurst, upon 
him than sought after. 
- In 1827 he was elected 
JHggg^' 7 - Representative to the 
State Legislature, and 
again re-elected there 
several times, lie acted 
as Chairman of the Com- 
•LYVv tin* Western I’eserve Col- 
time President of the 
rWfy./i //"('’V Ohio Stale Medical So- 
rj?'ij (- ' ciety; and, when in at- 
tendance at public gath- 
, ei’ings has universally 
been called upon to as¬ 
sume the duties of the 
chair. In 1801 lie re- 
practico his profession of medicine whenever 
called upon so to do, he gave his time, and 
thoughts mainly to the culture of the farm, 
garden and orchard. lie 
availed himself of every op¬ 
portunity—and by reason of 
his student-life acquaintancc- 
ship and his many friends 
^ East, these were numerous— 
to obtain every new seed, 
plant, tree and implement of 
value in aid of the successful 
cultivation of Agriculture and 
Horticulture, lie made a 
practice of saving and sow¬ 
ing seed of the heat grains 
YWj. H, and fruits, and of the most 
■ beautiful flowering plants; he 
studied their sexual chnrac- 
\ tors and points of value with 
J a view to obtaining, by eross- 
ing or intermingling of the 
pollen, new soils possessing 
superior merits. These re- 
B jjgjj! suits upon his own grounds 
|f|j||j were for many years below 
11|| his expectations; but in the 
H|| hands of a few others into 
ISY whom he had infused a part 
of,his own energy and entliu- 
jfe/ siasm, the product, was, in 
several cases, most gratifying, 
§§^s^|§w and inspired him to roncwVd 
efforts. The Kirtland Pear is 
§g|| y one of the results of Ids ad¬ 
vice to others to sow seeds of 
•'/ the best. 
^ From 1834 to 1887 bis or¬ 
chard of apples and pears 
contained every variety of its 
kind that could he obtained 
from Coxr, Prince and 
. others engaged in fruit cul¬ 
ture, and lie cut from it. grafts 
by the thousands, and gratuitously distrib¬ 
uted them to all who were willing to plant, 
graft and care for the culture of fruit. 
In 1837 he removed to Cleveland, and at 
first established himself in the town or city; 
ties for knowledge thereof had been restrict¬ 
ed. lie obtained trees and plants from 
Prince of Flushing, Paumentler of Brook- 
latingBook in the charge of Prof. Knight. At 
the close of the medical term he, with others 
formed a class for the study of Botany and 
Mineralogy, which, together 
with their medical studies, 
was pursued under Prof. Eli 
Ives and Benjamin Sit.li¬ 
man. In 1814 he entered the 
Medical Department of the , 
University of Pennsylvania, /|j 
and soon after passed an ex- / 4§H| 
animation for a medical dc- / | 
grec before the Medical Fan- 
ulty of Yale College. The >||||slfgp 
subject of his Thesis was, 
“Our Indigenous Vegetable J|3gl|f||| 
Materia Medica”—a favorite 
subject of one of Ills teachers, 
Dr. Benjamin Smith Bar- / A®®®:* 
ton, and in consonance more 
with his own tastes than other 
points of his profession. 
I 11 May, 1814, he was united 
in marriage with Caroline, c 
daughter of Joshua Atwa¬ 
ter, and soon after com- kfc 
nieneed the practice of medi- 
cine in the town of Walling- 
ford, which he continued fppgp 
until 1817, when, at a town 
meeting held in Durham, lie 
was invited to locate in that 
township as a physician, 
which invitation he accepted. 
His practice here soon be¬ 
came large; but with it he N ^p| 
found lime to interest himself 
in the culture of fruits and 
flowers, obtaining plants from 
the woods, transferring them 
to his garden, from Avhenco 
he distributed freely both 
plants and seeds. His exten¬ 
sive rides in the course of his 
practice made him cognizant of the various 
fruits that were then being planted, and he 
occupied much time in gathering and dis¬ 
tributing grafts and seeds, and in explaining 
the arts of cultivation to those ivbose facili- 
ubustrial Jll 
? 
EMINENT HORTICULTURISTS—III 
Jared Pottov Kiri land. 
Writing of inanimate matter, of beauty 
in flower, grandeur of scenery, or perfection 
in form and quality of fruit, is an easy and 
pleasant, occupation, alike enjoyable and 
to be enjoyed without after thought or re¬ 
gret ; but when we attempt to make record 
of the works of the good, to depict their 
nobleness and intelligence, however pleasing 
the labor, there is a constant impression on 
the mind of our incapacity as the agent; we 
feel the lack of adequate inspiration to 
worthily inscribe words commemorative of 
the goodness and worth of those who have 
planted seeds of eternal growth, by and from 
which ourself, and our friends, and our 
friend's friends, may be led to beautify and 
enjoy our homes, our lives, and our loves. 
The subject of our present life-sketch, 
Prof. J. P. Ki kt land, has been associated 
in daily friendship with us for more than a 
quarter of a century. We, in common with 
hundreds of others, have received from him 
eifts. the fruit of his mind, his heart, and of 
the earth, by reason of Ids skill in their cul¬ 
ture. In all instances these contributions 
have been the result not so much of any 
special personal regard as of a desire to 
advance the general good of all, and es¬ 
pecially to promote the improvement, of 
horticultural taste, the culture of fruits and 
flowers as a life pursuit best adapted to 
secure our happiness here and hereafter—a 
vocation which, gives to the afternoon of life 
as many pleasures as were realized in its 
forenoon—a life in which, with all its labors 
and cares, is interwoven constant reminders 
of the Creator, begetting a daily worship 
and love of Him because of His benevolence 
and supreme power. 
Imbued with an inextinguishable thirst for 
knowledge, and posses¬ 
sed of untiring industry, 
Prof. Kirtland has -'JStS 
made his life and himself, ~ __ r ‘ - -' 
perhaps, much con- 
in, other arts and sciences 'Sjjg- «yj|i 
ed with the" Farm, Gar- 
HAND and Mary (Potter) 
Kirtland, and grandson 
10th, 1793, iu the town 
cation chiefly in Cheshire 
PreiKiwtoffluj C] 1 i.si si ire 
Ives and Nathan Smith 
of New Haven, Ct., until 
J 1813, when lie entered 
a. t he first class in the Medi- 
I* cal Department of Y T ale 
k. College, and was the first 
K who signed the Matricu- 
lyn, Kings county, N. A 7 ., Coxe ot Bur¬ 
lington, N. J., and from them distributed 
grafts freely. 
In 1823 lie removed to Poland, Trumbull 
county, Ohio, where, although continuing to 
VIEW OF THE HON1E OS’ PROF. JARED 4.-*. KIRTLAND, CI^IE VELANU, OHIO 
