. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 52 The American Florist. Aug. 2, PEOPLE WE KNOW. Arthur M. Kirljy. Arthur M. Kirby, the newly elected vice-president of the American Sweet Pea Society, is a "Buckeye" by birth, having first glimpsed this world in Lorain County, Ohio, near the shores of Lake Erie in 1859. Shortly after this event his parents moved to Lex- ington, Ky., where his mother died at th'e outbreak of the Civil war. Arthur was then sent back to Ohio to live among his relatives until his father, on returning from the war, married a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 52 The American Florist. Aug. 2, PEOPLE WE KNOW. Arthur M. Kirljy. Arthur M. Kirby, the newly elected vice-president of the American Sweet Pea Society, is a "Buckeye" by birth, having first glimpsed this world in Lorain County, Ohio, near the shores of Lake Erie in 1859. Shortly after this event his parents moved to Lex- ington, Ky., where his mother died at th'e outbreak of the Civil war. Arthur was then sent back to Ohio to live among his relatives until his father, on returning from the war, married again and settled in the Shenandoah valley, West Virginia, where Mr. Kirby's boy- hood was spent. As he developed to- wards manhood, realizing that the Southland at that time offered but few opportunities to a young man that had to work for his living, he was on the lookout for an occupation elsewhere and one day he saw in the Christian Herald Henry Ward Beech- er's account of his visit to Peter Hen- derson and his establishment in Jer- sey City. Mr. Kirby was a lover of flowisrs and gardening, purchasing supplies from the few firms that is- sued catalogues at that time, and the newspaper article suggested an appli- cation for a position along lines of his inclination. It was the first and only application he ever made, and Mr. Henderson wrote him to "come on," which he did the year of the Phil- adelphia Centennial (187G) and he has "stayed on" these 38 consecutive years and still feels fit for a few years more of his congenial life work. One of the hobbies of Mr. Kirby has been sweet peas, in which he has taken a studious interest before and since they leaped into importance with Mr. Bckford's earlier introductions. He familiarized sweet peas from the fields of Canada, from which a large portion of the seed supply came, with a normal yield of 25 fold, until the great California ranches, with an out- put of 100 fold or more, put Canadian grown sweet peas prac
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