Robert Stell Lemmon

Robert Stell Lemmon (born June 26, 1885 in Englewood , New Jersey , † March 3, 1964 in Wilton , Connecticut ), often also Robert S. Lemmon , was an American non-fiction author and naturalist. He wrote books and lectured on domestic dogs , horticulture , wildlife , wildflowers and trees .

Life

Lemmon was the son of William and Caroline Lemmon, nee McCulloh. After graduating from Englewood School for Boys and studying at Yale University , he graduated in 1909 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then worked for the American Trading Company. In 1911 he accompanied a zoological expedition from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to Ecuador . Upon his return he became co-editor of Travel Magazine. From 1915 to 1918 he was an editor and from 1918 to 1937 senior editor at House & Garden magazine . In 1920 he married Florence Edwards in New York City. From this marriage a daughter was born. During the 1930s he was treasurer of the North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS) and in 1938 he founded the horticultural magazine Real Gardening . From 1943 to 1951 he was editor-in-chief of The Home Garden magazine .

Lemmon made numerous trips through the United States and South America , where he studied the flora and fauna. He wrote over 300 articles for various magazines and several natural history books, including some for children. Initially, Lemmon's books dealt with domestic dogs, including his debut Training the Dog , published in 1914, and The Puppy Book (1924) on puppies and About your Dog (1928). Lemmon was a member of the National Audubon Society , for whose Nature Program series he wrote several books, the American Ornithologists' Union and the Yale Club of New York City .

Fonts

• Training the Dog , McBride, Nast & Company, New York, 1914
• The Puppy Book , Doubleday, 1924
• with Richardson L. Wright : House & Garden's Second Book of Gardens , Conde Nast, 1927
• About your Dog , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928
• Old Doc Lemmon , The Midland Company, 1930
• How to attract the birds: Planting, feeding, housing , American Garden Guild, 1947
• The Birds are yours , Macmillan, 1951 (illustrations by Don Richard Eckelberry)
• Our Amazing Birds: The little-known facts about their private lives , American Garden Guild and Doubleday, 1952 (illustrations by Don Richard Eckelberry )
• The best loved Trees of America: Intimate Close-ups of their Year-round Traits , American Garden Guild and Doubleday, 1952
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Favorite Wildflowers , Nelson Doubleday, 1954
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Best Loved Song Birds , Nelson Doubleday, 1954
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Flowering Trees and Shrubs , Nelson Doubleday, 1955
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Seeds and Seed Pods , Nelson Doubleday, 1955
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Dogs , Nelson Doubleday, 1955
• All about Birds , Random House, 1955
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Burst of Spring , Nelson Doubleday, 1956
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: House Plants , Nelson Doubleday, 1956
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Life on a Farm , Nelson Doubleday, 1956
• City Parks and Home Gardens , Volume 3 in The Community of Living Things series (in collaboration with the National Audubon Society), Creative Educational Society, 1956
• All about Moths and Butterflies , Random House, 1956
• All about strange Beasts of the Present , Random House, 1957
• with Jean Zallinger: All about Monkeys , Random House, 1958
• with Charles L. Sherman: Flowers of the World in Full Color , Hannover House, 1958 (2nd edition as Flowers of the World , 1964)
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Favorite Song Birds , Nelson Doubleday, 1959
• Junior Science Book of Trees , Garrand Press, 1960
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Wildflowers of the Mountains , Nelson Doubleday, 1960
• Wildflowers of North America in Full Color , Hannover House, 1961
• Junior Science Book of Big Cats , Garrand Press, 1962
• National Audubon Society Nature Program: Wild flowers of the meadows , Nelson Doubleday, 1967 (posthumous)

literature

• Who's Who in America. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. Marquis Who's Who, Volume 32, 1962-1963, p. 1834
• Robert Lemmon, naturalist, Dead; Author of Many Books Was Editor on Home Garden. The New York Times , March 5, 1964, p. 30
• Virginia Tuttle Clayton: The Once & Future Gardener: Garden Writing from the Golden Age of Magazines: 1900–1940 , David R. Godine, 2008, ISBN 978-1-56792-102-1 (short biography on p. 234)

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Stell Lemmon in the WorldCat bibliographic database