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John Lowell, who was also president for some years of 

 the above-named society, and who stood at the head of the 

 horticulturists and agriculturists in New England, and 

 was styled by General Dearborn as the Columella of 

 the Northern States. He presided at the preliminary 

 meeting which eventuated in the establishment of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Lowell received scions of fruit trees from Mr. 

 Knight, President of the Horticultural Society of Lon- 

 don, and other eminent pomologists of Europe, and so 

 liberally distributed them to his friends that his trees 

 were often crippled in their growth. Mr. Lowell was 

 also interested in the growth of exotics, arid had in his 

 collection some of the first orchideous plants of which 

 we have any record. Among his plants sixty years 

 ago he had a famous Strelitzla reyina, which was then 

 an object of great curiosity. No man in the early part 

 of this century did more for the promotion of pomology 

 in New England than Mr. Lowell. 



This estate was next inherited by the Hon. John A. 

 Lowell, our esteemed and venerable citizen, who 

 added largely to its glass structures, one of which was 

 an Orchid house, to contain the plants bequeathed to 

 him by John Wright Boott, some of which are now at 

 the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, to which Mr. Lowell 

 also gave a large part of his own Botanical library. 



In Roxbury was the garden of Gen. Henry A. S. 

 Dearborn, who will ever be gratefully remembered as- 

 the first president of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. He was also a great leader in the establish- 

 ment of the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and the founder 

 of Forest Hills Cemetery. In his garden were raised 

 the Dearborn Seedling pear and other fruits. He gave 

 several hundred ornamental trees to be planted at 

 Mount Auburn, and was personally occupied in the 



