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laying out and adornment of both this and the Forest 

 Hills Cemetery, and to him are the public more indebted 

 primarily for the prestige and popularity of these in- 

 stitutions than to any other man. His labors, addresses 

 and communications for the press in regard to the 

 science and practice of horticulture and rural embellish- 

 ments, have given to his name an earthly immortality. 



Here also was the garden of the late Enoch Bar tie tt, 

 one of the founders and first vice-presidents of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, where may now be 

 seen the first Bartlett pear trees imported, a variety 

 which is more popular than any other in our country. 

 These grounds were previously owned by Captain 

 Brewer, on which he had planted many fruit trees. 

 When Mr. Bartlett purchased this place in 1820 he 

 found two young trees which, on fruiting, proved to be 

 the above, both of which still bear fruit, the largest 

 being over forty inches in circumference three feet 

 above the ground. This pear was afterwards ascer- 

 tained to be the Williams Bon Chretien, an English 

 variety. 1 



At Jamaica Plain were the garden and orchard of 

 Captain John Prince, who was a successful cultivator of 

 fruits and flowers. In 1825 he had eleven varieties of 

 pears, four of plums, two of apricots, besides grapes and 

 many varieties of apples. His greenhouse contained 

 some of the early Camellias introduced into New England, 

 among which was a Double White, purchased of Joseph 

 Barrell, of Charlestown, when it was only a foot high, 

 but a few hours previous to Mr. Barrell's death. 



One of the most noted places for the production of 

 fruits and vegetables in the Roxbury district for the 

 last century is the old Williams homestead, on Wal- 



1 Letter of Allen Putnam. 



