A Vermonter’s life in plants remembered

Cyrus Pringle. UVM imageLooking back at Cyrus Pringle’s ancestry, it seems only natural he would become a horticulturist. That he would also become a great botanist—one of the most important this nation has produced—is more surprising.
Pringle’s love of the plant world seems to have grown out of his ancestors’ experiences and his own childhood in Vermont. Born in 1838 in East Charlotte, Pringle once wrote that in his choice of professions he had been “(p)rompt