George Ware

George Ware, Ph.D. (1924–2010) was an American dendrologist and former research director of the Morton Arboretum Illinois who specialized in the evaluation of Asiatic species of elm as urban trees.

Ware taught botany, ecology, dendrology and conservation at universities in Oklahoma and Louisiana, before joining the Morton Arboretum in 1968 as Dendrologist, becoming Research Director ten years later, a post he held until his retirement in 1995.

During his career at the Morton he raised hybrid elms, maples, planes, poplars and mulberries.

He also traveled extensively, making a total of five expeditions to China, and three to the former Soviet Union.

George Ware died of complications arising from pancreatic cancer at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago on 4 July 2010.