. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ELMIRA,NEW YORK Capacity 35 cars per day 300,000 boxes. Every facility is offered for the successful carrying and marketing of Box Apples for domestic and export use Fireproof warehouse 30c Insurance rate Storage rates and advances quoted on application William ^, ^Irtom THE late William N. Irwin, who departed this life in Washington, D. C, June 23, 1911, was born near South Salem, Ohio, May 21, 1844. His boyhood and youth were spent in Ohio, near the place of his birth. Soon after his marriage, December 15, 1868, to Miss Ella N. Rowand, who with four chil- dren
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ELMIRA,NEW YORK Capacity 35 cars per day 300,000 boxes. Every facility is offered for the successful carrying and marketing of Box Apples for domestic and export use Fireproof warehouse 30c Insurance rate Storage rates and advances quoted on application William ^, ^Irtom THE late William N. Irwin, who departed this life in Washington, D. C, June 23, 1911, was born near South Salem, Ohio, May 21, 1844. His boyhood and youth were spent in Ohio, near the place of his birth. Soon after his marriage, December 15, 1868, to Miss Ella N. Rowand, who with four chil- dren survives him, he removed to East- ern Kansas, where he engaged in farm- ing and related pursuits for the succeed- ing twelve years. About 1880 he returned with his family to his old home in Ohio, where he engaged in fruit grow- ing and nursery work. This occupied his attention until 1891, when he was appointed tn a position in the division of pomology (subsequently merged into the Bureau of Plant Industry) in the United States Department of Agricul- ture. Here he continued actively engaged until a few days before his death. In his department work Mr. Irwin exhibited high efficiency. As a judge of varieties he had a wide acquaintance with fruits, and possessed and developed a delicacy and discrimination of taste and of descriptive power which rendered him unusually expert in the identifica- tion and description of rare and little known varieties. In work of this charac- ter the efficiency of the individual depends largely upon his ability to acquire through observation and test such complete and accurate knowledge of varieties as renders their recognition possible, even where printed descriptions or illustrations fail to indicate their dis- tinguishing characteristics. This ability Mr. Irwin possessed in an exceptional degree. Coupled as it was in him with a friendly and cordial disposition, it ren- dered him a most valuable co-worker in the pomological force of the department.
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