his pre'^nt residence in Jiine, 1832. It is (lie fii-st liouse in Durcla'stor, on Wasliiii;;- 

 ton Strwt, loading from the M:iin Street, in Koxbury, tx) the Old South (.'hurrh, in the 

 former town. I lis place is called Hawthorn Grove, and is the next residence south of 

 Grove Hall. Ilis dwelling stands back from the street, and is surrounded with grate- 

 ful shades in variety. His gardens, extensive nurseries, and green-houses, rank anictiig 

 tln^ best furnished in the country. All his buildings are tasteful and convenient. His 

 fruit room, which gives him the control of the temperature, of the air and light, is con- 

 structed upon scientific and original principles, and enables him to regulate, at pleasure, 

 the npening process. His grounds are tastefully laid out and adorned; his nursencs, 

 which c»jver about ten acres, contain many thousands of young fruit trees, particularly 

 the I'oar. For the last species of fruit his grounds are as distinguished as his green- 

 houses are for the best varieties and the most extensive collection of Camellias. 



His library of well selected, rare and valuable w^orks on his favorite arts of horticul- 

 ture and agriculture, affords evidence of a well cultivated mind, and of a habit of 

 thorough investigation and study. 



Blessed by nature with quick perceptive faculties, and witli unusual vereatility of 

 mind, he acquires with ease and rapidity; and being of a practical turn, he readily and 

 and wisely appropriates his knowledge to his daily pursuits. He is a rigid economist 

 of time, and a strict adlierent to system. The early hour of morning he devotes to the 

 planning of the labore of the day. This prepares him to give wise direction to the 

 workmen when they are ready for their employments. After breakfast and family 

 duties, he goes forth to see that each man is at his post, to drop a word of encourage- 

 ment to the industrious and faithful, and by his own exarnple to encourage and instruct 

 them, now training a vine or giving a finishing touch to a boquet, then wielding the 

 spade or the pruning knife, hybridizing a Camellia, planting a tree, inserting a bud, 

 sketching a flower, or gathering the first fruit of a new variety of Pear for subsequent 

 study, delineation, and description. At ten o'clock, or thereabout, he doffs his garden 

 robes, and is attired — in his carnage — and on his way to Boston, where the remain- 

 der of the day is devoted to his mercantile business. The evening he devotes to study. 

 This system he has steadily pursued for a long course of years ; and in his strict adhe- 

 rence to it lies the secret of his success, and of his elevation to the distinguished posi- 

 tion which he holds as a merchant, a horticulturist, and an agriculturist. 



In the early history of the ^lassachusetts Horticultural Society, we find him honora- 

 bly associated with the lamented Dearborn, Puixney, Coleman, Fessenden, Lowell, 

 Manning, Perkins, Story, Everett, Webster, and others of fair fame who still live. 

 The object of this association was the promotion of horticulture. As instruments in 

 their favorite work, its members early contemplated the publication of its transactions, 

 the formation of a library, exhibitions of fruits and flowers, an experimental garden, 

 and a rural cemetery. Of these objects the two latter were sought by the purchase of 

 Mount Auburn, for a garden and cemetery; the ground for this Pere La Chaise of 

 America was bought, laid out, consecrated, and the sale of lots commenced in 183L 

 But the proprietors, many of them, felt but little interest in horticulture. They valued 

 chiefly the liberty of free access to the grounds of the cemetery, and the exclusive title 



their respective family lots and tombs. Their interest in Mount Auburn was 

 from the commanding object of the Horticultural Society, that with sucb 



