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Boston Public Garden, and of the statue of Hamilton 

 on Commonwealth Avenue, and who was thirty years 

 ago much interested in the growth of rhododendrons, 

 azaleas and other plants. Under the supervision of 

 Professor Sargent, this place, with its magnificent land- 

 scape, its conservatories of plants, and its extensive 

 collection of conifers, rhododendrons and azaleas, is 

 every year thrown open to the public. With its exten- 

 sive and rare collection of native and foreign trees and 

 shrubs, and its wide and grand embrace of one hundred 

 acres in extent, this estate is one of great interest for 

 the study of landscape and ornamental culture. 



General Lyman, to whom we have alluded, expended 

 large sums of money in the erection of his house in 

 1842, of which Kichard Upjohn was the architect. He 

 improved the premises by grading the lawn, planting 

 trees, and building graperies, all of which have been 

 further improved by his worthy son, Col. Theodore, 

 who still resides there, and whose son of the same 

 name, a promising lad, we hope will live to per- 

 petuate the memory of Theodore Lyman. Here 

 remain some of the grand old trees planted by the 

 father of our venerable citizen, Jonathan Mason, who 

 still lives at the advanced age of nearly ninety years. 

 General Lyman was a patron of horticulture, agricul- 

 ture, and moral reform.* He gave over seventy 

 thousand dollars to found the State Reform School at 

 Westborough ; ten thousand dollars to the Farm School, 

 in Boston Harbor, and ten thousand dollars to the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society. 



In Brookline, also, is the elegant villa, with its splen- 

 did avenues and grounds, of the late John Eliot Thayer, 

 left by him to Mrs. Thayer, now Mrs. Robert C. Win- 



* See Mr. Bugbee's chapter in Boston Memorial, Vol. III. 



