First Blueberry Hybrids

1911 January 28th---Department of Agriculture Responds to Miss White’s letter offering White’s Bog for Blueberry Culture Research

William Alton Taylor, Acting Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry "wrote that the department would probably accept the offer of co-operation which had been turned over to the author of Bulletin 193."

Elizabeth C. White-- 1936

William Alton Taylor

Biography

Events and Materials associated with Dr. Taylor

1911 January 30 -- Famous Botanist may visit White's bog to investigate possible Blueberry Culture at location.

            1909-- Who's who in New York City and State, Volume 4

Professional and Personal History

1911 44th Birthday March 23.

1905 A Report on Systems of Leasing Large Areas of Grazing Land

1904 President of Botanical Society of America


1903 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Cosmos club
 

1903  Desert Laboratory    Carnegie Report 

1900 Contributing Member of the Washington Academy of Science

1900 Theta Delta Chi fraternity F. V. Coville in the picture?


1898  Gov Policy

1893-1911 Honorary Curator of the U.S. Herbarium

1893-1911 Botanist U.S. Dept of Agriculture

1890-91 Botanist Death Valley Expedition  

1890 Married Elizabeth Harwood Boynton

1888 Theta Delta Chi fraternity  Arms from old chair  Additional Info

1887 Mr. F.V. Coville was one of the volunteers during the summer of 1887. His work was done chiefly in Independence County.  His work was unfortunately interrupted by illness in his family, and he was obliged to return home before he finished his study of the plants found in Arkansas.

1887-88  Instructor in Botany,Cornell University  

1886-87 President's Report Cornell Evaluation  Additional Info  More Info  

1887 Graduates from Cornell University with A.B. in Botany 

Special Distinctions

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Honors for General Excellence

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Athletics

1887 Hammer Throw and 440 Yard Dash  

1886 Standing high jump, Hurdles, one-forth mile run

1885 120 yards hurdle race, Hurdle race, Standing broad jump   

1884 Standing broad jump, 100 yard run, 220 yards run, Running high jump, hurdle race

Athletic Accomplishments at Cornell  More Accomplishments

Taming the Wild Blueberry Chronology

1911 COSMOS CLUB

1904 President of Botanical Society of America

1903  Desert Laboratory    Carnegie Report

1893-1911 Curator of U.S. National Herbarium

1890-91 Investigated Grazing and outline Gov't policy for forest reserves

1890-91 Botanist Death Valley Expedition

1898  Gov Policy

1887  Instructor in Botany Cornell Universityhttp://books.google.com/books?id=21UdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2_ZDoriyi5EmNAauGK_IM3b7nhHQ&ci=78%2C130%2C865%2C1224&edge=0

1911 February 4-- F.V. Coville Interested in Visiting Whitesbog

1911 Elizabeth C. White talks about Ezekel Sooy finding high bush blueberries for her.

Elizabeth C. White
1941

1911. Elizabeth C. White obtains three blueberry bushes from a man

Elizabeth White begins her search for the best wild high bush blueberry bushes.

At some point she refered to the best bushes as the aristocrates of blueberries.

Elizabeth C. White

Blueberry Culture 1917

1911 --- Experiments in Blueberry Culture. 2nd Printing

1911 July--Ezekel Sooy gives Frederick Coville Special Blueberry Bush ripped from the ground to grow in Washington, D.C.

http://www.whitesbog.org/pdf%20files/newsletters/2011_1st_quarter_newsletter.pdf

1911 March -- From Washington D.C., Frederick V. Coville sends Elizabeth C. White seedlings from the best bush, the "Brooks".

                                         Blueberry Culture

                                                                        Elizabeth C. White
                                                                                                  December 1916

1911 March 1--Frederick V. Coville Visits Whites Bog for Possible Blueberry Culture Site

                                       Whitesbog Village
                                     100 Hundred Years Ago Today

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                          "On February 4th, Frederick V. Coville wrote saying that he would like to visit Whitesbog to look into the possibilities. The visit was made on March 1st, 1911." Miss White also wrote that Coville visited Whitesbog and New Lisbon at that time.
                
                                                                      Elizabeth C. White
                                                                           May 1936
                                                                   The Blueberry Grower

                                          

Fenwick Manner, New Lisbon

J. J. White and USDA Botanist, Frederick Vernon Coville

1911 February--Whites Bog Botanist, Frederick V. Coville has story published in National Geographic

100 years ago
USDA, "Botanist In Charge" titled article  

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“Taming the Wild Blueberry”

Click here to read the article.

1903 Photograph of F.V. Coville

1911 February 4-- F.V. Coville Interested in Visiting Whitesbog

100 years ago

1911 January 30 -- Famous Botanist may visit White's bog to investigate possible Blueberry Culture at location.

1909-- Who's who in New York City and State, Volume 4

Professional and Personal History

1911 44th Birthday March 23.

1905 A Report on Systems of Leasing Large Areas of Grazing Land

1904 President of Botanical Society of America


1903 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Cosmos club
 

1903  Desert Laboratory    Carnegie Report 

1900 Contributing Member of the Washington Academy of Science

1900     Theta Delta Chi fraternity

                     Is F.V. Coville in the picture?    


1893 Honorary Curator of the U.S. Herbarium

1893 Botanist U.S. Dept of Agriculture

1890-91 Botanist Death Valley Expedition  

1890 Married Elizabeth Harwood Boynton

1888 Theta Delta Chi Fraternity  
               Arms from old chair    Additional Info

1887 Mr. F.V. Coville was one of the volunteers during the summer of 1887. His work was done chiefly in Independence County.  His work was unfortunately interrupted by illness in his family, and he was obliged to return home before he finished preparing his list of the plants found in Arkansas.


1887-88  Instructor in Botany,Cornell University  

1886-87 President's Report Cornell Evaluation  
Additional Info  More Info  

1887 Graduates from Cornell University with A.B. in Botany 

Special Distinctions  Honors for General Excellence

n

Athletics

1887 Hammer Throw and 440 Yard Dash  

1886 Standing high jump, Hurdles, one-forth mile run

1885 120 yards hurdle race, Hurdle race, Standing broad jump   

1884 Standing broad jump, 100 yard run, 220 yards run, Running high jump, hurdle race

Athletic Accomplishments at Cornell  More Accomplishments

1899 Cornell University -What it was like when F.V.Coville studied their.

1911 January 28th---U.S. Department of Agriculture Responds to Miss White’s letter offering White’s Bog for Blueberry Culture Research

Offer is now in the hands of Botanist In Charge, Frederick V. Coville

100 years ago

According to Miss White, “William A.Taylor, Acting Chief of the Bureau wrote that the department would probably accept the offer of co-operation which had been turned over to the author of Bulletin 193.”

Elizabeth C. White 1936

The Blueberry Grower

William Alton Taylor

Credentials

1912

 Science

Events and Materials associated with Dr. Taylor

1904 World’s Fair Virtual Link

1904 World's Fair The Louisiana Purchase Exposition

  

wikipedia Louisiana Purchase Exposition

  

The St. Louis Exposition: August 1904

1903 Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal year Ended 

The fruit industry, and substitution of domestic for foreign-grown fruits

1896 Small Fruit Culture for the Market

1905 The Substitution of Domestic for Foreign Grown Fruits

1902 Promising New Fruits

1909 Fruit Marketing Transportation and Storage Investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture

TAMING THE WILD BLUEBERRY CHRONOLOGY