chapter BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
richardson, john, was born in Boston, February 19,1798. He died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, September 22, 1887. Of a wealthy old Boston family, he never actively engaged in business and was able to devote most of his life to the cultivation of his garden. The peony was his favorite flower and he produced many superior varieties. From 1877 until the time of his death Richardson was raising seedlings and it is interesting to note that at the same time, in France, such men as Calot, Crousse, and M6chin were experimenting with new varieties. Richardson's originations received many awards from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He named very few of them and consequently the names which many of them bear were given them by Richardson's friends, Mr. John C. Hovey and Prof. Robert Tracy Jackson, who received plants from him.
Richardson, John, Dorchester, Mass. 1798-1887. Pioneer peony raiser.
John Richardson of Dorchester, Massachusetts, had peonies as early as 1857 and grew seedlings for thirty years. Some of these were later described and distributed by Professor Robert T. Jackson of Cambridge.
