Hyattsville Horticultural Society scrapbooks

Chesnut, V.K. (Victor King), 1867-1938

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Victor King Chesnut was born in Nevada City, California on June 28, 1867. He attended high school in Oakland, California and college at the University of California, the University of Chicago, and George Washington University specializing in chemistry and botany. He worked for the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1894-1904, and as a professor of chemistry and geology at Montana Agricultural College (Montana State University) from 1904-1907. Following his work in Mont...

Norton, J. B. S. (John Bitting Smith), 1872-1966

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Professor of botany and plant pathology at the University of Maryland and State Plant Pathologist. Author of numerous publications, member of many horticultural societies, and owner of Norton Gardens. From the description of Papers of John Bitting Smith Norton, 1895-1959. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19119345 ...

Chestnut, V. K. (Victor King)

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Hyattsville Horticultural Society.

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H. M. Connelly, V. K. Chestnut, W. B. Ballard, and J. B. S. Norton founded the Hyattsville Horticultural Society, on the oldest garden clubs in America, during the winter of 1916-1917. J. B. S. Norton was a professor of botany and vegetable pathology at the University of Maryland for more than forty years. W. B. Ballard served the University in a number of capacities, as a pomologist at the Maryland Experiment State at the time of the Society's organization, and later as head of the Landscape De...

Norton, J. B. S., 1872-1966

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