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Sargent (CHARLES SPRAGUE an American)

CHARLES SPRAGUE, an American arboriculturist, born in Boston in 1841. He graduated from Harvard in 1862. He served during the Civil War, and in 1872 became professor of horticulture at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. In 1873 he was director of the arboretum, and from 1879 was professor of arboriculture at Harvard. He was chairman of the commission for the preservation of the Adirondack forests, in 1885, and also acted as chairman of SARGENT the commission appointed by the National Academy of Sciences for the establishment of a forest policy for the United States. He was an officer and member of many foreign and American societies and wrote: "The Woods of the United States"; "The Forest Flora of Japan"; "Manual of the Trees of North America' (1905); and many reports.