Josiah Hoopes
Josiah Hoopes | |
|---|---|
 Hoopes circa 1898 | |
| Born | （1832年11月9日）November 9, 1832 |
| Died | January 16, 1904（1904年1月16日） (aged 71) West Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Occupations | Botanist, nurseryman |
Josiah Hoopes (November 9, 1832 – January 16, 1904) was an American botanist specializing in arboriculture. He founded one of the largest commercial plant nurseries in the United States in his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania.[1][2]
Life and career
Hoopes was born to parents Pierce and Sarah A. Hoopes in West Chester in 1832. He attended Philadelphia high schools. In 1853, he founded Cherry Hill Nurseries (later Hoopes Brothers & Thomas) in West Chester, which expanded to one thousand acres by 1913 and became one of the largest commercial plant nurseries in the United States. Hoopes supplied fruit trees to all the country's national cemeteries and sold overseas in Europe and Australia. The business formally dissolved in July 1948.[2][1]
Hoopes was lifelong friends with botanists David Townsend and William Darlington. He wrote for The New York Times, The Horticulturist, Botanical Gazette and other horticultural periodicals and served as founder and president of the Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania for seven years.[1] His Book of Evergreens (1868) was an authoritative treatise on conifers.[3][2]
Hoopes was a fifth-generation Quaker. He had a colony of purple martins nesting on the grounds of his house.[4] He had a collection of mounted bird specimens, nearly eight thousand of which were acquired by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and served as a trustee of West Chester State Normal School for fifteen years.[5]
The standard author abbreviationHoopes is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
References
- ^ abcJones, Jim (2003). Made in West Chester: The History of Industry in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1867 to 1945. West Chester, PA: Taggart Printing. pp. 15–21, 63. OCLC 52529857.
- ^ a b cガーナー、ウィンフィールド・スコット；ワイリー、サミュエル・T. (1893). 『ペンシルベニア州チェスター郡の伝記と肖像事典』（サミュエル・T. ワイリー著）には、郡の歴史概要と、郡の著名人や主要住民の500人以上の伝記概要が収録されている。フィラデルフィア：グレシャム出版社。pp. 264– 265.
- ^フープス、ジョサイア（1868年）『常緑樹の書：針葉樹、または球果植物に関する実用的論文集』ニューヨーク：オレンジ・ジャッド・アンド・カンパニー、OCLC 1315090227。
- ^ Henshaw, HW (1907).ツバメの昆虫駆除剤としての価値. 米国生物調査局. 回覧第56号. USDA.
- ^ WS (1904). 「ノートとニュース」 . The Auk . 21 (2): 311– 312. doi : 10.2307/4070088 . ISSN 0004-8038 .
- ^国際植物名索引。フープス。
外部リンク
- 『常緑の書』（1868年）
