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Furman Lloyd Mulford

b. 1869

A practical early-20th-century writer on trees, gardens, and rural beautification, he helped bring horticultural advice to a wide public through U.S. Department of Agriculture publications. His work focused on making streets, farmsteads, and home grounds healthier, more useful, and more attractive.

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Street Trees

Street Trees

by Furman Lloyd Mulford

About the author

Born in 1869, Furman Lloyd Mulford is remembered as an American horticultural writer whose publications centered on trees, planting, and landscape improvement. Records from the Biodiversity Heritage Library identify him as the author of Street trees and connect him with work issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Project Gutenberg lists a substantial body of his writing, suggesting he was a prolific contributor to practical agricultural and horticultural literature. His surviving titles point to a clear interest in everyday improvement rather than theory alone: better streetscapes, better-kept farmsteads, and more thoughtful use of plants in ordinary life.

Because the available sources found here are mainly library and archival records, only a limited biographical picture can be confirmed with confidence. Even so, those records show an author closely associated with public-facing horticultural guidance in the United States during the early 1900s.