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Andrew Samuel Fuller was born on August 3, 1828, and brought up in a fruit-growing region. His parents lived at Utica, New York, when he was born, but soon moved to a small farm near Barre, New York.
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Andrew Samuel Fuller was born on August 3, 1828, and brought up in a fruit-growing region. His parents lived at Utica, New York, when he was born, but soon moved to a small farm near Barre, New York.
Andrew attended country school but also did the usual chores which fell to a farmer’s boy. In 1846, the family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he learned the carpenter’s trade.
He was also a student of prehistoric American pottery.
In 1855, Fuller became manager of the greenhouses of William R. Prince of Flushing, Long Island. This position he held for two years; then, anxious to enter business for himself, he moved to Brooklyn and began the culture of small fruits, specializing in the improvement of the strawberry by cross-fertilization and selection. In this work, he was a pioneer.
Almost immediately, he began writing on horticulture for Life Illustrated, the New York Tribune, and other publications. The Tribune distributed 300, 000 of Fuller’s strawberry plants as circulation premiums, helping to establish him financially as well as in reputation. While living in Brooklyn he began to write his first book, The Illustrated Strawberry Culturist (1862).
In 1860, he moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he had purchased a tract of wasteland. This he improved and used largely for experimental purposes, but he continued to write for various agricultural and horticultural papers.
During 1866 and 1867, he was editor of Woodward’s Record of Horticulture. He also continued his work on the New York Tribune until 1868, when he became agricultural editor of the newly established Weekly Sun, which position he held until 1894.
On the Sun, he was responsible for the distribution of seed potatoes with subscriptions.
The last, the best of his works, was translated into German and published at Weimar in 1868. In 1871, Fuller became associate editor of Moore’s Rural New- Yorker, later simply the Rural New-Yorker, and acted in this capacity for five years.
In April 1876, he became part owner and editor-in-chief of the paper but dropped these connections within a year. During his term of service on this publication, his New Jersey farm was popularly referred to as “the Rural New-Yorker’s trial grounds. ”
Meanwhile, he continued his writing and his experimental work, particularly with fruits.
His Practical Forestry appeared in 1884, The Propagation of Plants in 1887, and new editions of his other books at intervals. He constantly improved his own farm, adorning it with practically all the trees and shrubs native to the region and many others besides.
During the last ten years of his life, he devoted much of his time to assembling data for The Nut Culturist, which he believed would be his best work and which was published (1896) shortly before his death. With characteristic energy, he continued to write for various agricultural and horticultural periodicals through the latter years of his life.
At the time of his death, he was a staff writer for the Florists’ Exchange, the American Agriculturist, and the American Gardener.
He died of neuralgia of the heart after a very brief illness.
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Fuller had keen powers of observation and a natural aptitude for systematic information. His writing was always vigorous, direct, and interesting.
In 1851, Fuller was married to Jennie Clippens.