Frederick Frye Rockwell

Frederick Frye Rockwell (1884, Orleans, Massachusetts – 1976, Nyack, New York) was an American author of gardening books, and an editor of numerous magazines and periodical columns pertaining to horticulture.

Biography

Rockwell was a founder of Home Garden Magazine. His editing career included the positions of Sunday garden editor of the New York Times, senior editor of Flower Grower-Home Garden, and garden editor of Farm Journal, Town Journal, McCall's, and Living for Young Homemakers. He was also former national president of Mens Clubs of America, and a founder of the Men's Garden Club of New York. He first married Ethel Marjorie Hughan, of Brooklyn, New York, with whom he had three boys and a girl. They later divorced and he married Esther Grayson, his co-author on a number of books.[1]

He wrote numerous books, including Around the Year in the Garden in 1917 which was unique for the time as it was arranged week-by-week so a head garden could comprehensively manage a garden.[2][3]

Works
  • Home vegetable gardening (1911)
  • Gardening indoors and under glass (1912)
  • The gardener's pocket manual (1914)
  • Making a garden of small fruits (1914)
  • The key to the land: what a city man did with a small farm (1915)
  • Around the year in the garden (1917)
  • The little pruning book (1917)
  • Save it for winter: modern methods of canning, dehydrating, preserving and fruit for winter use (1918)
  • Gladiolus (1927)
  • Shrubs (1927)
  • Rock gardens (1928)
  • Evergreens for the small place (1928)
  • Irises (1928)
  • Gardening with peat moss (1928) (William Breitenbucher, co-author)
  • Dahlias (1929)
  • Lawns (1929)
  • Your home garden and grounds (1930)
  • Roses (1930)
  • Peonies (1933)
  • The book of bulbs (1935)
  • Flower arrangement (1935) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • Gardening indoors (1938) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • Flower arrangement in color (1940) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • The gardener's bug book: 1,000 insect pests and their control (1946) (co-author under Cynthia Westcott)
  • The complete book of flower arrangement: for home decoration, for show competition (1947) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • The complete book of annuals (1955) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • The Rockwell's complete book of roses (1958) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • The complete book of lilies (1961) (Esther Grayson, co-author)
  • "The Complete Guide to Successful Gardening" (1965) (Esther C. Grayson, co-author)

References
  1. "F. F. Rockwell, 92, a Garden Expert". The New York Times. 1976-04-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  2. "Notes and Comment". The Plant World. 20 (10): 339–340. 1917. ISSN 0096-8307. JSTOR 43477549.
  3. Rockwell, Frederick (December 2008). Around the Year in the Garden. Applewood Books. ISBN 9781429014618.
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