Warder
was a physician, author, horticulturist and forester.
Bartram was a neighbor in Philadelphia. He met the
naturalists, Audubon, Nuttall, and Michaux in his
father's home. In 1830 his parents moved to
Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia in 1836 and began
practice at Cincinnati in 1837.
He was very active in Cincinnati and was one of the
founders of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. For
many years he was President of the American
Pomological Society and the Ohio Horticultural Society
(now the Ohio State Horticultural Society).
He was one of the first to draw attention to
improvement of public grounds, private parks and
cemeteries. He was interested in establishing Spring
Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, one of the earliest and
best of landscape or lawn cemeteries. He finally moved
to a farm near North Bend, Ohio, where he tested
cultivars of fruit, methods of culture and developed a
private experiment station.
He prepared numerous practical papers on pomology.
In 1850 he began publication of the Wheaten
Horticultural Review which continued for four
years.
He published Hedges and Evergreens (1858); American
Pomology Apples (1867). The latter is still considered
a standard authority on the description of cultivars
of apples and contains a table of cultivars and
synonyms of over 1500 names.
He was instrumental in founding the American
Forestry Society. He was possibly the most outstanding
pomologist and horticulturist of the Central West.
