Frederick Frye Rockwell
Frederick Frye Rockwell (1884 in Orleans, Massachusetts – 1976 in Nyack, New York) was an American author of gardening books, and an editor of numerous magazines and periodical columns pertaining to horticulture. Biography. Rockwell was a founder of "Home Garden Magazine". His editing career included the positions of Sunday garden editor of the "New York Times", senior editor of "Flower Grower-Home Garden", and garden editor of "Farm Journal", "Town Journal", "McCall's", and "Living for Young Homemakers". He was also former national president of Mens Clubs of America, and a founder of the Men's Garden Club  of New York. He first married Ethel Marjorie Hughan, of Brooklyn, New York, with whom he had three boys and a girl. They later divorced and he married Esther Grayson, his co-author on a number of books. He wrote numerous books, including "Around the Year in the Garden" in 1917 which was unique for the time as it was arranged week-by-week so a head garden could comprehensively manage a garden.