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Excerpt from How to Collect, Label, and Pack Living Plant Material for Long-Distance Shipment Labels or marks of identification are of very great importance in all shipments of plant material. Whenever practicable, each pack age should be provided with two labels, one on the inside and one on the outside. The label should give (1) both the common and botani cal names of the plant if possible, (2) place where collected, (3) date of collection, and (4) name of collector. When the botanical name of a plant is not known, the common or local name often gives a clue to its botanical name and proves useful in determining the best way to handle the material. A name often opens the way to other facts which may prove extremely helpful in handling the material and determining where to place it to the best advantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Search in Foreign Countries for Blight-Resistant Chestnuts and Related Tree Crops In July, 1924, P. H. Dorsett, long connected with the work of the Office of Foreign Plant Introduction, left for northeastern China, accompanied by his son, James H. Dorsett. The explorations made by Dorsett and Dorsett have resulted in procuring additional chestnut material, including nuts from wild and cultivated trees from the regions north and northeast of Peking. In view of the great interest in substitutes for our native chestnut that may prove able to withstand the blight and be utilized in breed ing work, looking to the supplying of timber, tannin, and food, it has seemed desirable to bring together certain data bearing on the species already introduced or that may be introduced. This seems particularly necessary, inasmuch as there is considerable confusion and some misunderstanding as to the real merits of the introductions heretofore made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Bamboos: Their Culture and Uses in the United States Ilong before the department inaugurated its systematic work on agricultural explorations, bamboos were being brought into the country in various ways. These unusual and often strikingly beauti ful plants naturally attracted the attention of travelers, who found they could be lifted in clumps and kept alive for several weeks. Isolated plantings were thus early established along our southern seacoasts, and some of these have developed in a very striking manner. An interesting case in point is the grove on the Ogeechee Road, 14: miles south of Savannah, Ga. This grove is now more than 30 years old, covers an area of something over an acre, and many of the plants are 50 to 60 feet in height. Mr. Lathrop's continued interest in the bamboo is shown by the fact that when this remarkable planting of oriental bamboos was called to his attention he purchased it, together with 40 acres of surrounding land, and deeded the property to the Government for plant-introduction work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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horticulturist plant pathologist agricultural research administrator
Galloway was born on October 16, 1863 in Millersburg, Missouri, the youngest of four children and the only son of Robert McCauley and Jane (McCray) Galloway. His father, of Scotch-Irish ancestry and a native of Kentucky, was a farmer and miller, who soon after the Civil War moved to Columbia, Missouri, the site of the state university.
After completing public school, young Galloway enrolled in the university's agricultural college, specializing in horticulture and botany and graduating in 1884 with a bachelor's degree in agricultural science. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Missouri (1920) and Maryland (1923).
Following graduation, Galloway spent the winter of 1884-85 as the representative of the University of Missouri at the New Orleans Exposition, having previously collected agricultural and horticultural material to exhibit there. On his return to the university, he was put in charge of the greenhouse work of the horticultural department of the agricultural college, at the same time carrying on graduate work in plant pathology - reportedly the first student of this then very new science west of the Mississippi. Except for suggestions by correspondence from Prof. William Gilson Farlow at Harvard and Prof. Thomas J. Burrill at the University of Illinois, the only botanists at the time in America giving any thought to the problems of plant diseases, he was largely self-taught. In a series of papers on plant diseases and their prevention, presented before the State Horticultural Society and published in the agricultural papers of the country, Galloway pioneered in presenting practical and helpful information on the subject to farmers. He went to Washington in 1887 as assistant in the Section of Vegetable Pathology of the United States Department of Agriculture and became chief of the section a year later. He immediately initiated a far-reaching program on the nature, cause, and control of plant diseases, assembling about him a distinguished band of fellow workers. Emphasis was laid on field demonstrations and controlled experiments, often in cooperation with the state agricultural experiment stations and the actual growers themselves. The resulting publications firmly established the science of plant pathology. This research, conducted under Galloway's direction, became internationally known and is perhaps his most notable accomplishment. The section became the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology in 1895, with Galloway continuing as chief. About 1900 it became evident that the Department of Agriculture must be reorganized if the needs of agricultural research were to be properly served, and Galloway was one of those who took the lead in bringing about the creation in 1901 of four new bureaus - Plant Industry, Forestry, Chemistry, and Soils - consolidating the work of existing divisions. From 1901 to 1913 he headed the first of these bureaus, which brought together the plant work of the Department, previously scattered among six competing and overlapping divisions. In March 1913 Galloway became Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. In this post he gave particular attention to administrative procedures, personnel management, and closer cooperation with the agricultural colleges and experiment stations. He also took an active part in the successful efforts to secure passage of the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act (1914), which authorized federal grants-in-aid to the state agricultural colleges for the support of extension work in farm areas. Galloway left the Department of Agriculture in 1914 to become dean of the New York State College of Agriculture and director of the state experiment station at Cornell University, but he was not happy in the work, and in 1916 he returned to the Bureau of Plant Industry. Here he served as an advisory plant pathologist, particularly in the fields of foreign plant introduction and plant quarantine. He retired in 1933 but until his death maintained his interest in the lines of agricultural research he had done so much to develop. Afflicted with blindness and incurable disease, he took his own life in Washington, D. C. on June 13, 1938. He was buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery there.
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Member of the American Phytopathological Society, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Galloway married Agnes Stewart Rankin of Kansas City, Missouri, on September 5, 1888.
