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Andrew S. (Andrew Samuel) Fuller

1828–1896

Best known as a pioneering American horticulturist, he wrote practical, influential books on fruit, grapes, nuts, and trees at a time when home and commercial growing were rapidly expanding in the United States. He also brought an early scientific eye to insect pests, linking horticulture with what would become applied entomology.

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The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States

The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States

by Andrew S. (Andrew Samuel) Fuller

About the author

Born in Utica, New York, on August 3, 1828, Andrew Samuel Fuller grew up in a fruit-growing region and spent his early years helping on the family farm near Barre, New York. After his family moved to Wisconsin in the 1840s, he learned carpentry and developed a strong interest in plants and greenhouse work.

That practical background shaped a long career as a horticulturist, editor, and author. He managed the greenhouses of W. R. Prince at Flushing, Long Island, later settled in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and used his land there for experiments. Fuller edited Woodward's Record of Horticulture in the 1860s and wrote widely on cultivation, including books such as The Grape Culturist, The Small Fruit Culturist, The Nut Culturist, and works on strawberries, trees, and plant propagation.

He is also remembered for his interest in injurious insects and for urging growers to take insect control seriously, making him an early figure in economic entomology as well as horticulture. Fuller helped found the New Jersey State Horticultural Society in its later form and served as a vice-president from Bergen County. He died on May 4, 1896.