John Rock (nurseryman)

John Rock.[1]

John Rock (August 19, 1838[2][3][4] – August 9, 1904)[5] was a German-born American horticulturalist and nurseryman. John Rock was a leader in California in pomology and the nursery business from 1865 until his death in 1904.[6] Charles Howard Shinn wrote the entry for John Rock in L.H. Bailey's Cyclopedia of Horticulture[7] He said "John Rock's scientific spirit, his wide and ever-increasing knowledge, his very high standards of business and his unselfishness made him during his long life the leader of Pacific coast nurserymen. He introduced more valuable plants and varieties to American horticulture than any other man of his period. His connection with Japan, India, Australia and with the great establishments abroad was close and constant. He did much to encourage men like Luther Burbank, and his collections were always at the service of students and the public."

  1. ^ "Transaction and proceedings of the annual meeting. v.02 yr.1912". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  2. ^ J. P. Munro-Fraser (1881). History of Santa Clara County, California. Harvard University. Alley, Bowen & co. pp. 736–737.
  3. ^ Passport No. 2182, issued July 12, 1889 for travel to Heidelberg, Germany from July to October 1889.
  4. ^ From Birth/Baptism record from Lauter, Germany
  5. ^ American Council of Learned Societies (1943). Dictionary of American biography. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. New York, C. Scribner's Sons.
  6. ^ Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James) (1921). California nurserymen and the plant industry, 1850-1910. Cornell University Library. Los Angeles, Published by the California Association of Nurserymen. pp. 27, 40.
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