Donald Wyman

Donald Wyman (1904 — 6 December 1993)^[1] was an American horticulturist, the head of horticulture at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum (1935/36^[2]—1970), and the author of many books, including Wyman's Garden Encyclopedia (1976). Wyman served as president and director of the American Horticultural Society.

He took a bachelor's degree in horticulture from Pennsylvania State College (1926) and a master's in forestry (1933), then a PhD in horticulture at Cornell University (1935)

At the Arnold Arboretum he departed from the original method of planting by botanical association, to mark vistas and turns with specimen trees, and was energetic in acquiring seeds of many species that he introduced to American horticulture. He retired in 1970.^[3]

He received the George Robert White Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1970), the Veitch Memorial Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society (1969) and the Medal of Honor from the Garden Clubs of America (1965).

Selected works

Aside from hundreds of professional articles in the Arboretum's journal Arnoldia he published

• Shrubs and Vines for American Gardens (1949, 3rd rev. ed 1969)
• Trees for American Gardens (1951, 1972, 1977)
• The Arnold Arboretum Garden Book (1954)
• Ground Cover Plants (1956)
• The Saturday Morning Gardener: A Guide to Once-A-Week Maintenance (1974)
• Dwarf Shrubs: Maintenance-free woody plants for today's gardens (1975)

Notes

1. ^ "Remembering Donald Wyman", from Arnoldia 53.3 (1993:2)
2. ^ He served for six months without salary in the depths of the Great Depression before being named horticulturist ("Remembering Donald Wyman").
3. ^ Harvard University OASIS: Records of Horticulturist Donald Wyman, 1935-1970

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Date of birth	1904
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