Background
Rockwell, Frederick Frye was born on April 2, 1884 in Brooklyn. Son of Frank Warren and Elizabeth Trowbridge (Hammill) Rockwell.
Rockwell, Frederick Frye was born on April 2, 1884 in Brooklyn. Son of Frank Warren and Elizabeth Trowbridge (Hammill) Rockwell.
Special student Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1905-1906.
Circulation manager Garden Magazine, 1906-1907. Manager Wilshire Book Company, 1907-1908. With New York Call, 1908-1909.
Director service department and manager Burpee’s Seed Farms, 1917-1919.
With Tuthill Advisory Agency, New York, 1919-1921. Manager nursery and bulb department and of publicity and advertising, Seabrook Company, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1921-1925.
Garden editor, The New York Times garden page, 1934-1943. President, Men's Clubs American, founder Men's Garden Club New York Author: Home Vegetable Gardening, 1911.
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass, 1912.
Making a Fruit Garden, 1914. The Pocket Garden Guide, 1914. The Key to the Land, 1915.
Around the Year in the Garden, 1916.
Save lieutenant for Winter!, 1918. Gardening Under Glass, 1921.
The Book of Bulbs, 1926. Shrubs and Gladiolus, in Home Garden Handbooks series, 1927.
Rock Gardening and Evergreens, 1928.
Irises, 1928. Dahlias, 1929. Lawns, 1929. Roses, 1930. Peonies, 1933.
Flower Arrangement (with East. C. Grayson), 1935.
Gardening Indoors (with East. C. Grayson), 1938. Flower Arrangements in Color (with East. C. Grayson and F. West. Cassebeer), 1940. Editor: Ten Thousand Garden Questions Answered, 1944.
The Complete Book of Flower Arrangement (with East. C. Grayson), 1947.
Editor in chief: The Home Garden. Socialist. Horticultural editor of McCall’s Magazine Contributor to magazines
Home: West Nyack, New New York
Married Marjorie Hughan, September 5, 1910 (divorced). Married second, Esther C. Grayson, 1933. Children: Wallace, Frederick F., Donald West., Margaret East.