THE WISCONSIN FARMER.                               
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             Dr. Jao. A. Kennioott          Societies, he won for himself
hosts of friends,
   This eminent practical Horticulturist depart- and a western-wide notoriety,
sealed by the
 ed this life on the 4th day of June, 1863, at easy familiarity,44d geniality
of manner which
 "The Grove," his home in Cook Co., mli.    ever recognized the
real fruit-grower an a
   From a biographical sketch, accompanied brother in a good cause.  Many
in this State
                                            will remenmbesr his plafiq. off-hand-talk
lecture
 with an excellent photographic engraving, in in the old Senate Chavo?;r
before the State
 the Jane 18th issue of the Prairie Farmer, Chi- Agricultural Society, at
our last Fair, Ia 1860,
 cago, we glean some notes of his early history. aerwards published in t
 1 80 0
   He was born in 1800, in Montgomery Co., acterwards pubtished in the  
  zoiety'. Inns-
 N. Y. He was called the -vOld Doctor," be- actions.   is Lterisic of
the     -that
 cause he was the eldest of thirteen living practie l, directrahi   whilh
evlls for
 children, among whom were several doctors,  the end de
   His parents were born in Rode Island, but At the -Grove," his home,
made very at-
 of somewhat noted 14liph and Scotch origin. traetive outwardly by perseveringly
applying
 His father wis of th poeIr clss who, after his theories to practice, says
the editor of the
 several remgvale%. J:.iy leaded in the before Prairie Former, * no one could
spend any time
 mentioned cliko, 111,                      with him, especirlly at his home,
wandering
   The Old IToee~Vshen j#ite y   wuang, became throagh his spacious and well
filed rounds,
proficient in Botac', en  ableb sanee he de- where every living thing seemed
to And in him
                 .%...ed aor! Xl o tha friend and companion, or in the willa
erected
livered a course*. it lectiues ig Wuffalo, at the
age of twrent^_,~ Ed it, twenty-three oem- with So much taste, in listeming
to his enter.
menced the ama7 of 'mollie at the same tainiag     onversation, without feeling
that he
place. His actiwe habits of life, both physical had been benefitted bythe
itrvew.
and mental, Bffwped, perhqs, from necessity at  In life' theDoctor has been
erecting monu-
an early We, eattbtued * reLrkable feature ments to his memory all over the
northwest
in his cbaeioter while living.             that are to last longer then marble.
Thcnsazds
  In the practice of his 'profesion he visited of homes nave them growing
in their grounds
several of th6"weset"and southwestern cities, in the beautiful,
tapering, pyramidal ever-
and, in the capacity of editor and publisher, greens, especially, which were
such favorites
was a resident of New Orleans for several at "IThe Grove;" and,
as each year addistat.
years. At the age of thirty-six he became a ure to them and they point upward,
they will
resident of Illinois.                      always be a reminder of him who
was always
  Some ten years later he seems to have turned alive to everything tending
to improve or
his attention particularly to horticultural and awaken interest in Horticultural
matters in
agricultural science, becoming a practical nur- the land."         
        J. C. P.
seryman. From this time he has been widely  MADISON, Win.
known, not only as a pioneer of western civil-
ization and intelligence, but particularly in the       Homely Flowers.
horticultural field, a practical, earnest worker; It is not always the newest
that is the most
in the varied capacity of editor or publisher beautiful flower. We have presented
illustra-
of the Prairie Farmer, for three years from the tions of some of these that
were eminently
close of 1862; for several years Corresponding worthy of the high favor they
enjoy, and we
Secretary of the Illinois State Agricultural So - now pay our respects to
a few whose common-
ciety; and President of the Illinois State Hor- ness has so nearly run them
out of the gardens
ticultural Society in 1861.               of the more pretentious that they
are likely,
In all these, together with his numerous at no distant day, to require re-introduction,
lectures before Agricultural and Horticultural as something quite new under
the sun.



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