Background

Barron, Leonard was born on September 29, 1868 in Chiswick, England. Son of Archibald Farquharson and Eleanor (Ayres) Barron.

Education

Educated Belmont House, Chiswick, England, Gunnersbury College, 1880-1884, Birkbeck Institute, special courses in botany, vegetable physiology and morphology, chemistry and biology, 1884-1892. Came to the United States, 1894.

Career

Admiral Charles Jepp Robinson, Registered Nurse, of Chiswick, England, June 3, 1896. Children—Eric Stuart, Dorothy Enid. Assistant editor Gardeners’ Chronicle, London, 1885-1893.

Editor American Gardening, New York, 1894-1904.

Managing editor Garden Magazine, 1905-1911, editor, 1911-1924. Editor Garden and Home Builder, 1924-1928.

Horticultural editor American Home and Country Life, 1928-1936. Editor The Flower Grower, since 1936.

Advisory editor Doubleday Doran & Company, publications Author: Lawns and How to Make Them, 1906.

American Home Book of Gardening, 1931. (chief author) Roses and How to Grow Them, 1905. Editor: The Water Garden.

The Garden Library.

Flower Growing, 1924. The Pocket Garden Library. Home: Rockville Centre, New New York

Achievements

• Leonard Barron has been listed as a noteworthy horticulturist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Effie Maud, g.d. Children: Eric Stuart, Dorothy Enid.

Father:

Archibald Farquharson Barron

Mother:

Eleanor (Ayres) Barron

Spouse:

Effie Maud

child:

Dorothy Enid Barron

child:

Eric Stuart Barron