Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives Photograph Collection, 1890-1982
Date
circa 1894
Decade
1890s
Subject (LCSH)
Agriculturists
Faculty
Alumni
Subject (local)
García, Fabián, 1871-1948
New Mexico State University. College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Historical context
Fabián García was in the first graduating class of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (New Mexico State University) in 1894. Mr. García was born in Mexico and is responsible for many contributions to horticulture in New Mexico and beyond. Mr. García developed a new kind pod for chile peppers, New Mexico No. 9, and all New Mexican chile peppers today carry those genes, he planted the first Pecan trees in New Mexico, and brought sweet onions to the state.