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the hands of William Payne, then to Gen. Theodore Ly- 

 man, and on the latter's removal to Brookline, to Copley 

 Greene. Now it is a place distinguished for numerous 

 glass structures, for the growth of fruits, flowers, and 

 vegetables, and for the excellent condition in which its 

 grounds and their appurtenances are kept by its present 

 owner, Mr. T. W. Walker. Waltham was much devel- 

 oped by the enterprise of Messrs. Lowell and Patrick 

 Jackson ; there, also, Dr. James Jackson had a lovely 

 place, and Judge Jackson for a few years held the Gore 

 place by lease. 



Another place is especially worthy of notice in Wal- 

 tham. "Lyman Place," the home of Theodore Lyman, 

 one of Boston's renowned merchants, where he and his 

 eldest son, George W. Lyman, lived from 1795 until 

 their deaths, the latter having died Sep. 24, 1880> 

 aged 93 years, 10 months. This estate was bought in 

 1793, and the mansion house erected in 1795. The 

 first greenhouse was built about 1800, and divided into 

 two parts, in which were raised pineapples, bananas, 

 and other tropical fruits, and among the ornamental 

 plants the yellow Mimosa (Acacia) which was then 

 considered very elegant. Mr. Lyman brought over a 

 celebrated English gardener by the name of Bell. He 

 commenced laying out and grading the grounds, which 

 took several seasons to finish, but when completed they 

 were the finest illustration in the country of modern 

 landscape gardening in their tinie; "bearing witness," 

 says Mr. Henry W. Sargent, "to a refined and elegant 

 taste in rural improvement. Its fine level park a mile 

 in length, was enriched with groups of English limes, 

 elms and oaks, and masses of native wood, watered by 

 a fine stream, and stocked with deer, \vere the leading 

 features of the place at that time. The oldest of these 

 trees were set out early in this century, and are still in 



