Farm Implements and Farm Machinery, and the Principles of Their Construction and Use: With Explanations of the Laws of Motion and Force as Applied on the Farm ... 1886
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The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Directions for the Propagation and Culture of Fruit Trees in the Nursery, Orchid and Garden : With ... Cultivated in the United States 1855
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The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for the Year 1870: Containing Practical Suggestions for the Farmer and Horticulturist (Classic Reprint)
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The Fruit Culturist: Adapted To The Climate Of The Northern States; Containing Directions For Raising Young Trees In The Nursery, And For The Management Of The Orchard And Fruit Garden; The Fruit Culturist: Adapted To The Climate Of The Northern States; Containing Directions For Raising Young Trees In The Nursery, And For The Management Of The Orchard And Fruit Garden; John Jacobs Thomas
John Jacobs Thomas
M.H. Newman, 1846
Fruit; Fruit-culture
John Jacobs Thomas was an American pomologist, author, and editor.
Background
He was born at Ledyard, Cayuga County, N. Y. , in 1810, the son of David and Hannah (Jacobs) Thomas, and a descendant of David Thomas who is said to have emigrated from Wales with William Penn in 1699. His father, a Quaker, was a self-taught engineer active in the construction of the Welland Canal and of the Erie Canal from Rochester to Buffalo; he was also the author of Travels through the Western Country in the Summer of 1816 (1819), and a pioneer fruit-grower and nurseryman of central New York.
Education
He had only the education afforded by the neighborhood district school.
Career
John Jacobs Thomas early demonstrated unusual ability in a wide range of rural activities. For some thirty years he conducted nurseries successively at Palmyra, Macedon, and Union Springs, N. Y. , and it is recorded that each tree he sold was allowed to bear fruit first to be sure that it was true to name. He early acquired a clear style of expression.
He was assistant editor of the Genesee Farmer from 1838, an editor of the New Genesee Farmer and Gardeners' Journal, 1840-41, and associate editor of the Country Gentleman from its foundation in 1853 until shortly before his death in 1894, his editorials in the Cultivator and the Country Gentleman constituting the most varied and extensive series of discussions of rural topics written by an American during that period. His Farm Implements and Machinery (1854) and a series of nine volumes entitled Rural Affairs (1869 – 81), of which he was editor, covered a wide range of topics of interest to practical farmers. He developed skill as an artist, and illustrated his published articles and books with cuts from his own drawings.
In 1846 he published The Fruit Culturist, a paper-covered volume of some two hundred pages devoted primarily to practical instruction in the nursery propagation and commercial growing of temperate climate fruits. In 1849 this was expanded into The American Fruit Culturist, in which the content was trebled and the information condensed, systematized, and generously illustrated. Although it was preceded by the publications of many other able pomologists, it marks the beginning of systematic pomology in America. The most comprehensive of the earlier fruit books – The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1845), by Andrew Jackson Downing – was essentially encyclopedic in character, with little attempt at systematization of varietal description and no effort to classify varieties in such way as to facilitate the identification of unknown sorts.
Thomas gave careful attention to the selection and use of terms in his descriptions of varieties, and covered not only the characteristics of the fruits themselves but habit of growth, characteristics of bark, bud, leaf, and flower, productiveness, hardiness, etc. , as well. For each of the major fruits he developed a "Synopsis of Arrangement" which, though artificial in character, constituted a convenient guide to the identification of the varieties included in the book. Adopted by agricultural colleges as a standard text in horticultural courses, the book was important in the advancement of technical pomology and in the training of pomologists, as well as in the development of amateur and commercial fruit growing. It went through many editions during Thomas' life, and after his death was revised and enlarged (1897) by W. H. S. Wood.
He died in Union Springs, where he had lived for nearly forty years, survived by his wife and four of their seven children.
Achievements
He is remembered as a pomologist, who was an author in this field. He invented several tools and implements, one of which, the smoothing harrow, came into extensive use throughout the eastern and northern states.
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Membership
He was active in the formation of the American Pomological Congress (later the American Pomological Society), and served as the first president of the large and influential Western New York Horticultural Society, organized in 1855.
Personality
He was a man of singular gentleness and sweetness of character, with a kindly, humorous, somewhat square face and alert eyes. Because of a lameness in one foot he went on crutches.
Connections
Thomas married Mary Slocum Howland, August 23, 1838, at North Street Brick Meeting House, near Union Springs, N. Y.
