Horticultura Peirceana Chester County's horticultural heritage, the Peirce Arboretum (Peirce's Park) located and preserved on Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa. / by R.J. Seibert. 1968.

Peirce Arboretum.

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Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.)

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Seibert, Russell H. (Russell Howard), 1908-2000

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Russell J. Seibert was a horticulturist, botanist, and director of Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in botany from George Washington University in St. Louis. Water lilies were his original area of research interest, and Dr. Seibert had a long association with Shaw Gardens in St. Louis. In the 1940s he joined the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and began research in plant genetics in Haiti, Peru, and Costa Rica. In 1950 he became head of t...