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urcments for the ground plan, when his labors were arrested by 

 the attack of the insiduons disease which proved fatal.* To him 

 the brighter and pleasanter days of the opening summer came not. 

 It was his to bid farewell to the opening buds of springtime, to 

 take a last fond look at the structures and grounds which his skill 

 had designed and beautified — the flowers and vines and trees 

 which his hands had planted and trained with loving care. He 

 rests from his labors, in the fruition of a well spent life and a 

 sustaining hope. 



The members of this Society, and especially those who were 

 more intimately associated with him in the labors to which he was 

 so enthusiastically devoted, desire to place on record their high 

 appreciation of his character and services, and their heartfelt 

 sympathy with his afflicted family. 



♦The plan was afterwards finished by Mrs. Weston, with artistic skill, and with 

 strict fidelity to her husband's original intention. 



