Career
He edited the Canadian Horticulturist from 1878 to late 1886, and was the author of Canada"s first gardening guide, Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener. Beadle"s father was a physician from New York State who established a successful practice and also became the owner of the Street Catharines Nursery which quickly became an important cultivator of fruit trees. Beadle served on Saint Catharines City Council in 1886-1887.