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HE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{Aprily 



with whom they live, Rochester is much fa- 

 vored in this respect. Before us are tliree able 

 articles in daily papers of tliat city on various 

 topics of general horticultural interest, from P. 

 Barry. H. E. Ellwanger, and W. S. Little. 

 They tell of public gardening, fruit culture for 

 small gardens, and shrubs for small places. 



careful of his emploj-er's interests, he rose to- 

 the distinction of inventor, partner, contractor, 

 and we may say finally millionaire. The events 

 of the war, as in so many cases, made great in- 

 roads in this latter distinction, much to the re- 

 gret of his fellow citizens, as he was public 

 spirited as he was wealthy, and the whole city 



would have prospered by his increase in suc- 



Stephen Hoyt.— At the good old age of | cess. 



seventy-nine, passed away in the last month of | But we have to do chieflv with the Bartram 



February, one of our best known and most re- Gardens. These were popular as a resort for 



specte^ nuserymen, Stephen Hoyt of ^ew Ca- young Philadelphians, and as a boy Mr. East- 



jjg was like so many of our wick was a frequent visitor and lover of them, 



naan Connecticut. 



best nuserymen, drawn into the business from a 

 natural love for fruits and flowers, and not from 

 an early apprenticeship to the business, for he 

 was originally a school-master, and subsequently 

 turned his attention to mercantile pursuits. In 

 his thirty-seventh year he changed from city life 

 to a farm which he purchased from the Selleck 

 family, after whom the well known pear of this 

 name was called. He commenced the nursery 

 business in 1848. In 1856 the present firm of 

 Stephen Hoyt & Sons was established, and we 

 suppose will be continued under the same title 

 as heretofore. Mr. Hoyt took an active part in 

 the management of local affairs; and besides 

 served in the legislature of the State at a time 

 when it had not become fashionable to leave 

 the selection and nomination of public servants 

 to the least intelligent portion of the commu- 

 nity as now. Mr. Hoyt's death was regarded a 

 public calamity to New Canaan, for the whole 

 community seemed to turn out at the funeral to 

 do honor to his remains. 



Andkeav M. Eastwick.— Among the recent 



and in his boyish dreams often imagined that he 

 might some day be rich, and if so and could buy 

 them he would. A contract with the Russian 

 government to build and equip the railroad from' 

 Moscow to St. Petersburg was very successful, 

 and money remitted to Philadelphia invested in 

 mortgages. It so happened that his agent had 

 placed some in this way on the Bartram Gar- 

 dens, and thus when the Russian business "cam- 

 paign" was ended, and Mr. Eastwick returned 

 to his own land, the descendants of the great 

 botanical patriarch, aged and childless, were 

 only too glad to sell entirely to one whom they 

 felt would care for it, the Avhole property of 

 their ancestors. A new house was built for the 

 new proprietor's own family rather than destroy 

 the dwelling which the old botanist built liter- 

 ally with his own hands, and which still stands, 

 and still bears the famous Unitarian inscriptioUy 

 which in those early times made him " worse 

 than an infidel " to his zealous religious friends. 

 Every tree, every walk, every vine-clad arbor 

 was preserved with jealous care ; and the lovers 

 . - , of the great botanist have been at all times per- 



deaths IS that of the above excellent gentleman, \ fitted to see and examine them. Mr. E., how- 

 well-known as the purchaser of Bartram's cele- ever, felt what few could feel as he knew, that 



brated botanic garden from the son-in-law and 

 grand-daughter of America's early botanist. 

 The lovers of Arboriculture, and indeed the 

 students in many branches of our early history, 

 owe him thanks for the care with which every- 

 thing relating to the great botanist has been pre- 

 served. Mr. Eastwick, like so many of Phila- 

 delphia's most enterprising citizens, commenced 

 life in humble circumstances, and by the death 

 of his father was left an orphan at an early age. 

 His excellent mother, to whom he was ever de- 



in the wonderful growth of Philadelphia, the 

 arboretum grounds could not remain a gardea 

 forever ; and it was therefore no use to plant 

 new trees to take the place of others as they 

 decayed year by year. Some have died out in the 

 fullness of a good old age. In another fifty 

 years there will probably be few of the grand 

 old remains of Bartram's planting left, — and 

 ere another century, paved streets, brick build- 

 ings, and a little city yard will cover the ground 



, J ,. ,, . , where so many botanical loves lie buried. But 



voted, gave him all m her power, the best edu- ; ,,e all like to keep off these decrees of fate- 

 cation she could aftord, and a love of honest in-: from ^g.^^^j^ ^j^^^^ f^^^^^ ^^ ^^ 

 dependence that never failed him in after-life. ; possible, andin this good work, A. M. Eastwick. 



a journeyman .^^s one of the botanist's best friends. 



Prom a zealous apprentice to 



