Background
Robert was born on March 7, 1877 in London Grove, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Robert Lewis Pyle, a successful merchant, and Elizabeth D. Walton Pyle.
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Robert Pyle
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Robert Pyle attended Swarthmore College, from which he graduated in 1897, then, in 1907, took a brief postgraduate course at the International School for Social and Religious Studies in Woodbrooke, England.
Career
After a short period as acting superintendent of Swarthmore College, on October 1, 1898, Pyle went to work for the Conard and Jones Company of West Grove, Pennsylvania. The company had been organized in 1897 by Alfred S. Conard and A. Morris Jones to operate a mail-order nursery and seed business specializing in own-root roses grown from cuttings and sold while still small. Pyle began by making rose cuttings for 75 cents a day, but was soon transferred to the office.
When Conard died in 1907, Pyle and his father purchased most of his interest and the control of the company. Pyle then became president and general manager, positions he held until he died. Pyle was president and executive secretary of the American Rose Society from 1923 to 1932; national counselor of the United States Chamber of Commerce for the American Association of Nurserymen, and a trustee of Swarthmore College from 1910. He was also trustee and vice-president of All-America Rose Selections (an organization that operates some twenty-five test gardens across the country to select outstanding varieties for introduction to the public); trustee and president of the National Association of Plant Patent Owners; chairman of the Committee on Arboretums and Botanical Gardens of the American Association of Nurserymen and of its Committee on United Horticulture; president of the American Horticultural Society from 1932 to 1935.
He was also editor of the booklet "Success With Roses. " Pyle traveled extensively in the United States and abroad in search of superior roses. Among the many that he introduced were Lowell Thomas, patented in 1943; The Doctor (not patented); Mme Cochet-Cochet, patented in 1935; Good News, patented in 1940; Happiness, patented in 1950; and the miniatures Tom Thumb (1935) and Bo-Peep (1950).
Pyle died in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Robert Pyle was the president of Conard and Jones Company. The business developed rapidly under his management, and during his twenty years of ruling he converted it to the sale of two-year-old field-grown plants on grafted roots, which brought a much higher price. The most famous of his roses was Peace, patented in 1943 and introduced in 1945. He also was a founder of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretums. His How to Grow Roses, a thirty-six-page pamphlet was the largest-selling rose book of the time.
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Religion
Like his parents, Pyle was a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
Membership
Pyle was a member of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Connections
On March 15, 1910, Pyle married Hannah Warner Cadbury; they had no children.
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American