Frederick Frye Rockwell

Frederick Frye Rockwell, Sr. (April 2, 1884 – April 18, 1976) was an American author of gardening books, and an editor of numerous magazines and periodical columns pertaining to horticulture.

Rockwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Brooklyn surgeon Dr. Francis Warren "Frank" Rockwell and Elizabeth Trowbridge Hammill.

His editing career included the positions of Sunday garden editor of The New York Times (1933–1943), senior editor of Flower Grower-Home Garden (1953–1965) and garden editor of Farm Journal, Town Journal, McCall's, and Living for Young Homemakers.

[5] They later divorced and on Sep. 21, 1939, in Milford, Pennsylvania, he remarried to Esther Catharine Wilson Brown (the widow of Walter Marshall Grayson), his co-author on a number of books.

[6][7] He died in Orleans, Massachusetts at age 92, and is buried in Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Connecticut.