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A Horticultural Handbook; Volume 1, Issue 4 Of Wallaces' Farm Library
Joseph L. Budd
Wallace Pub. Co., 1900
Gardening; General; Gardening / Fruit; Gardening / General; Horticulture
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Joseph Lancaster Budd was an American pioneer in horticulture. He is noted for his greatest professional efforts in the field of horticulture in the United States, which were also recognized universally.
Background
Joseph Lancaster Budd was born on July 3, 1835 near Peekskill, New York on the old farm owned by his parents, Joseph and Maria Lancaster Budd. The parental ancestry was French, the original name being Bude. On the mother's side he comes of English stock, the Lancasters having come from that country and settled on the Hudson in Queen Ann's time.
Education
The education of Professor Budd was acquired in the state of his birth, where he passed from the common schools through the high school to the normal institutes.
Career
In 1857 Joseph Budd moved to Rockport, Illinois, where he spent two years in teaching. Then, first at Wheaton, Illinois, and soon after at Shellsburg, Iowa, he entered on a successful career as a nurseryman, orchardist, and instructor in horticulture. He was made secretary of the Iowa Horticultural Society and for twenty-one years prepared its annual reports. In 1876 he became professor of horticulture and forestry in the Iowa Agricultural College. Old-world methods and foreign text-books were of subordinate value for the American climate and agricultural conditions.
For the great Northwestern states a very different horticultural practise had to be developed. Following a journey to Russia in 1882, he imported into the Northwest from that country hardier varieties of fruit trees to withstand the severe winters. This work proved to be of the greatest value to the Northwestern states.
In Dakota and Manitoba practically the only varieties of apples grown are of Budd's introduction, and hundreds of orchards and groves in the colder parts of the Northwest bear testimony to his great service. His work extended successful fruit-growing much further north than had ever before been possible.
Assisted by N. E. Hansen he published in 1902-03 a Manual of American Horticulture in two volumes. In 1869, his health broken by his strenuous life, he resigned his active professorship, remaining emeritus professor. He died in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 20, 1904, and is buried in Ames, Iowa.
In 1857 he moved to Rockport, Illinois, where he spent two years in teaching. Then, first at Wheaton, Illinois, and soon after at Shellsburg, Iowa, he entered on a successful career as a nurseryman, orchardist, and instructor in horticulture.
Old-world methods and foreign text-books were of subordinate value for the American climate and agricultural conditions. For the great Northwestern states a very different horticultural practise had to be developed. Budd became the leader in this work and one from whom many in this field received their first training and enthusiasm.
Following a journey to Russia in 1882, he imported into the Northwest from that country hardier varieties of fruit trees to withstand the severe winters. This work proved to be of the greatest value to the Northwestern states. In Dakota and Manitoba practically the only varieties of apples grown are of Budd's introduction, and hundreds of orchards and groves in the colder parts of the Northwest bear testimony to his great service.
In 1869, his health broken by his strenuous life, he resigned his active professorship, remaining emeritus professor.
He died in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 20, 1904, and is buried in Ames, Iowa.
Achievements
Budd's large experience and extensive knowledge enabled him to make a study of the different fruits of the far East, which resulted in placing before the horticulturists those varieties which would prove most profitable in this country; also much information in relation to the care and growth of the same, which saved thousands of dollars from being spent in costly experiment. Budd became the leader in this work and one from whom many in this field received their first training and enthusiasm.
He was made secretary of the Iowa Horticultural Society and for twenty-one years prepared its annual reports. Assisted by N. E. Hansen he published in 1902-03 a Manual of Amech further north than had ever before been possible. His work extended successful fruit-growing mun that bequest the Iowa Agricultural College shares, for both libraries are now in that institution.
He was the Acting President of Iowa State from December 5, 1884 to February 1, 1885. His professional efforts were also extended beyond the territory of the United States. For example, in 1892 he traveled to Russia to investigate Russian varieties of fruits that would be winter hardy in the Midwest.
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Membership
He was a member of the Iowa Horticultural Society.
Personality
He was a man of sterling integrity, buoyant nature, considerable literary ability, and great enthusiasm and energy. His kind and generous nature keeps down opposition, making him as much loved for the personal qualities of heart as for his scientific achievements.
Connections
Budd was married on January 26, 1861, to Sarah M. Breed.