NATURE LORE AT GARRETTSVILLE AS REVEALED BY THE DIARIES OF GEORGE J. STREATOR, 1881-1887.

The article provides information on the life and works of George Jason Streator, a greenhouse and nursery entrepreneur in the U.S. Streator was born in Shalersville Township at Portage County, Ohio on July 23, 1846. He lived his youth in Michigan but returned to Garrettsville in 1870 as a young man to establish a greenhouse and nursery business. He has developed 3 horticultural plants known as Portage Gooseberry, the Streator Corn and the Cardinal Strawberry. He developed interest in the study of the land and fresh-water shells and the wild flowers as a hobby. Streator was an active member of the Portage County Horticultural Society and a founder of the Garrettsville Scientific and Antiquarian Society. He died in California in 1925.