author
William Scrugham Lyon
1852–1916
A practical early agricultural writer, he is best remembered for clear guides to tropical crops in the Philippines and for work tied to botany and forestry in California. His books focus on useful, hands-on cultivation rather than literary flourish.
2 Audiobooks
Cacao Culture in the Philippines
by William Scrugham Lyon
The Cocoanut: With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines
by William Scrugham Lyon
About the author
William Scrugham Lyon was an American writer on agriculture and horticulture active around the turn of the twentieth century. Records available during this search link him with works including Cacao Culture in the Philippines, The Cocoanut: With Reference to Its Products and Cultivation in the Philippines, and Gardening in California.
His published work suggests a strongly practical cast of mind: he wrote for growers, planters, and readers looking for direct advice on crops, cultivation, and plant management. In material connected with his Philippine publications, he is identified as being in charge of seed and plant introduction for the Insular Bureau of Agriculture.
Some sources also describe him as a New York-born early resident of Los Angeles, a forester connected with California’s first forestry board, and a botanical collector on Santa Catalina Island. The available sources were not consistent on his birth year, so it is safest to say that he lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and died in 1916.