. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1976 WILDER nation four times, he was elected commander of tlie Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He was a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At one time he was president of the state senate. In masonry he held all degrees, including the thirt
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1976 WILDER nation four times, he was elected commander of tlie Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He was a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At one time he was president of the state senate. In masonry he held all degrees, including the thirty- third. It is said that when Wilder was 27 there were no horticultural societies in America, and that he lived to see more than 1500 societies devoted to horticulture and kindred subjects. In 1883 Marshall P. Wilder urged upon the American Pomological Society the necessity of a reform in the nomenclature of fruits. He took an active part in the work that followed. Wilder's personality was most engaging, being char- WILD GARDEN cultural Society $1,000, to encourage the production of new American varieties of pears and grapes. Wilder wrote no book, but his occasional contributions and presidential addresses make a notable body of writings when gathered together into the bound volume presented by him to the library of the Massachusetts HorticuIt\irid Society. "The Proceedings at a Banquet given by his Friends to the Hon. Marshall Pinckney Wilder « • * to Commemorate the Completion of his Eighty-fifth Year," is a stately memorial of 116 pages published in 1883. The best account of him seems to be that by the secretary (Robert Manning) of the .society, in Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. 1887: 20-39, from which the present article has been chiefly compiled. -yf jj. 2723. A Wild Garde acterized by geniality, dignity, tact and conservatism. Horticulturists remember with what graciousness he met and recognized the younger men of merit at the meetings of the American Pomolo
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