Robert Manning

Following Manning's death in 1842, his son, Robert Jr. continued his work, winning medals for his pear and apple varieties. He became librarian and secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and wrote many books on horticulture. http://www.noblenet.org/salem/wiki/index.php/Manning,_Robert accessed 3/24/20

Life dates come from the Finding Aid for the Manning Family Papers at the Peabody Essex Museum, http://phillipslibrarycollections.pem.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15928coll1/id/4211

accessed 3/24/2020

See Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community, edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey, for a biograpy of Manning