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Forest Hills Cemetery; 1 and to these we might add 

 the Dorchester blackberry, the President Wilder straw- 

 berry, and just over the borders of Dorchester in Milton 

 the Diana grape, raised by Mrs. Diana Crehore, who still 

 lives at the advanced age of eighty-four years. This was 

 brought to notice in 1843, being the first seedling 

 American grape at the exhibitions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society deemed worthy of notice. 



Zebedee Cook, the second president of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, some fifty years since had a 

 large garden opposite the Andrews estate, on the east 

 side of the then turnpike road, where he successfully grew 

 several kinds of foreign grapes, apricots, peaches, and 

 pears. Among the grapes was a white variety, named 

 Horatio, after Mr. Horatio Sprague. Consul at Gibraltar, 

 from whom he received it, known now as the Nice 

 grape. 



Mr. Newhall was a distinguished cultivator, and the 

 first treasurer of the Massachusetts Horticultural Socie- 

 ty. His orchards were extensive, embracing a large 

 number of varieties, especially of the pear, which he 

 cultivated with success until about three years since, 

 when he died at the age of ninety. This place was 

 once the residence of Thomas Motley, father of the his- 

 torian, John Lathrop Motley, and his brother, Thomas 

 Motley, the president of the Massachusetts Society for 

 Promoting Agriculture, who were here born. 



Samuel Downer, 2 one of the founders of the Horticul- 



1 The Massachusetts Agricultural Club, desiring to name this pear for the 

 writer, and to disseminate it for general cultivation, offered Mr. Clapp one 

 thousand dollars for the control of it ; but he declined, preferring to give to it 

 the name it now bears. 



2 Pie was son of the celebrated Dr. Downer, " the fighting surgeon," who 

 had a personal encounter with a British soldier on his return from the battle 

 at Concord. Their fire having missed, Downer knocked him down and then 

 ran him through with his own bayonet, and said, " it was not ten minutes 

 before I got another good shot." Dr. Downer was in prison in Halifax, from 



