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Herbert John Webber
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<p>Herbert John Webber (December 27, 1865 – January 18, 1946) was an American <a href="/facts/Plant_physiology/zAh2o1Ao">plant physiologist</a>, professor emeritus of sub-tropical horticulture, first director of the <a href="/facts/University_of_California_Citrus_Experiment_Station/au5n7zhN">University of California Citrus Experiment Station</a>, and the third curator of the <a href="/facts/University_of_California_Citrus_Variety_Collection/8VAqXXJo">University of California Citrus Variety Collection</a>. Webber was the author of several publications on horticulture, member of numerous professional horticultural and agricultural associations. He coined the word "<a href="/facts/Cloning/Vb6SM4c7">clone</a>" in 1903 and was the first to use it to describe a colony of organisms derived asexually from a single progenitor. </p>