Rose Discoverer  

Listing last updated on Thu Nov 2024

Baja, California 92660
United States

From Some American Medical Botanists 1914: Charles Christopher Parry (1823 -1890)
One of many English-born American botanists...received his medical degree from Columbia College. Coming west to Davenport [Iowa] in the all of 1846, he began practice but soon discovered that his natural tastes ranged far from disease and drew him to the treasures of wood and field....The greater part of his time [up to 1878] was spent in observing and collecting along the St. Peters and up the St. Croix, to Monterey, in the mountains of Colorado and California...Then this energetic man set out with a Pacific Railroad Survey throughy New Mexico, ending in Mexico...Parry discovered...hundreds of new plants afterwards described by Dr. Gray and by Dr. Engelmann, and his name is firmly fixed in the history of West American botany.