Bobby Ward Remembering the Man with Chlorophyll in his Veins By Katy Barron & Frank Stasio • Dec 7, 2016 JC Raulston Arboretum Digital Archive Horticulturist J.C. Raulston died in 1996, but his legacy lives on at the North Carolina State University arboretum that bears his name, the nine plants named in his honor, and all over the backyards and nurseries of North Carolina.