Word: horticulturist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paulet des patches. England disavowed the action of Cap tain Paulet, and the English Admiral Thomas was sent to restore the Hawaiian flag, which ceremony took place in the plaza now known as Thomas Square. Mrs. Wilder's eldest son, G. P. Wilder, is a well known horticulturist, and has improved the Hawaiian mango. He and his wife have spent some time in Tahiti, investigating the origin of the Taro, the native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side...
Election. The Association Council, acting for the membership of some 15,000, elected as the Association's President for 1927, Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, author, botanist and horticulturist, onetime (1903-13) Dean of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University...
Manufacturer Ford had suggested it. So had Inventor Edison. Their good friend, Horticulturist Luther Burbank, last week virtually decided upon it-to sell his extensive experimental gardens at Santa Rosa, Calif., not to commercial interests (that course never entered his head), not to a great and eager Eastern university ("probably Harvard"), nor yet to the University of Southern California (though that institution made "elaborate overtures"), but surely to a university whose scientists would maintain and perpetuate his labors, and what more appropriate than to Leland Stanford Jr. University, where of recent years he, the world's plant wizard...
...France, M. Cassagrain, horticulturist, wrote to a lady member of a distinguished family of Turin accusing...
Luther Burbank, horticulturist: "I discontinued the nursery business. My Sebastopol, Cal., farm is for sale. I will now turn my attention to the world distribution of my improved seeds, thus insuring the permanency of my life's work...