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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
A GROUP OF PIONEER NURSERYMEN AND POMOLOGISTS 
ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING 
The most notable work of this eminent pomologist was 
“Fruits and Fruit Trees of America,” published in 1845. 
Mr. Downing was easily the foremost pomologist of America. 
Not only was he a student of fruits, but he was an ardent 
nature lover, and a man of a highly artistic temperament. 
As a landscape architect and a promoter of the natural 
school of gardening, he took high standing. His “Fruits 
and Fruit Trees of America” has gone through many 
editions, being enlarged and amplified by his brother and 
successor, Charles Downing. 
JOHN J. THOMAS 
John J. Thomas, of Union 
Springs, N. Y., died at an 
advanced age in 1895. He was a 
close and accurate student of 
pomology, and wrote the 
“American Fruit Culturist,” 
which has passed through more 
than twenty editions, and which 
now in its revised form is one of 
the standard works of reference 
on American systematic po¬ 
mology. Mr. Thomas was more 
closely associated with syste¬ 
matic and descriptive pomology than with fruit-growing; 
therefore, his interests were not as intimately connected 
with the Nurseryman’s Association as those of many 
other fruit-growers. 
John J. Thomas 
DR. JOHN A. WARDER 
Born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
1812; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
1883. Educated as a physician. 
A pupil of Bartram and Michaux 
in early life, he was taught to 
take an interest in plants and 
natural history. Leaving this 
profession in middle life, he 
bought a farm in Ohio and 
became a fruit experimenter. 
He brought together a large 
collection of fruits which he 
accurately described, and which 
formed a basis of his book 
entitled “American Pomology.” He was also the autho 
of “Hedges and Evergreens.” He was the discoverer 0 
Catalpa speciosa. His interest in forestry matters wa 
always keen, and he is to be regarded as the prime move 
in the organization of the American Forestry Association 
He was an active worker in the American Pomologies 
Society and the American Association of Nurserymen. 
John A. Warder 
ELISHA MOODY 
Elisha Moody, the 
first president of the 
American Association of 
Nurserymen, died at 
Rockport in 1891. He 
was one of the oldest 
nurserymen in western 
New York, and the head 
of the oldest firm exist¬ 
ing today. He is suc¬ 
ceeded by E. Moody & 
Sons. 
A. R. WHITNEY 
A. R. Whitney was 
born at Albion, N. Y., 
in 1824. He died at 
Franklin Grove, Ill., 
December, 1897. He was treasurer from 1876 to 1890. 
He will be remembered as originator of Whitney (No. 20) 
Crab. 
EDGAR SANDERS 
The temporary chairman of the initial organization out 
of which emerged the American Association of Nurserymen, 
, lived in Chicago. For some 
time before his death Mr. 
Sanders was an invalid. He 
was a forceful character, and 
always took a keen interest 
in the welfare of the Asso¬ 
ciation. 
D. WILMOT SCOTT 
The death of D. Wilmot 
Scott, first secretary, was 
reported by the Committee' 
on Necrology at the meeting 
of 1889, held in Chicago, and 
resolutions of sympathv and 
Edgar Sanders 
appreciation were passed. 
THOMAS SI 
Mr. Smith was one of the 
founders of the firm of W. & T. 
Smith Co., of Geneva, N. Y. 
He died on December 2, 1895. 
Mr. Smith came to America 
from England as a youths He 
engaged in the nursery business 
in Geneva in 1846 with his 
brother William. This firm, 
with Ellwanger & Barry, of 
Rochester, were pioneers in 
the business of growing fruit 
| trees in western New York 
Thomas Smith 
Elisha Moody 
