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Mayn, established at Georgetown, D. C., plants of the 

 American hedge-thorn (Buckthorn), which he set double 

 in his avenue for a third of a mile. After flourishing 

 many years this hedge was eradicated in 1850. Mr. 

 Quincy also obtained from Mayn the Burgundy, York 

 and Lancaster roses, the Bignonia Radicans, then rare 

 in this vicinity, and other plants. He found his attempts 

 to introduce here the principles of English agriculture 

 very troublesome and costly. He continued his in- 

 terest in fruit, and when past his fourscore years, 

 called on the writer to purchase trees of the Winter 

 Nelis pear. On being told that it was a slender and 

 slow grower, he replied, " That is of little consequence 

 to such young fellows as myself." He had a fine herd 

 on his farm, and wrote one of the best treatises on the 

 "Soiling of Cattle," which was published at the request 

 of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. 

 In 1849 and 1852, it was revised by Mr. Quincy, and 

 was republished in the Transactions of the Norfolk 

 Agricultural Society, of which he was a member, and 

 reprinted again in 1860, in Flint's State Agricultural 

 Report. Mr. Quincy was fond of every improvement, 

 and had one of the first mowing machines introduced 

 into New England. He passed the last summer of 

 his life on his farm, where he died, July 1, 1864, in 

 his 93d year, in the house and apartment of his grand- 

 father, Col. Josiah Quincy, leaving to his daughter, 

 Miss Eliza S. Quincy, and two of her sisters, life estates 

 in his house and grounds around it, where they now 

 reside. To his eldest son, the present Hon. Josiah 

 Quincy, ex-president of the Massachusetts senate, and 

 ex-mayor of Boston, he bequeathed his farm with a 

 house erected in 1850, who also carried it on for a few 

 years, and where, in 1881, he resides in a green old 

 age, with his children and grandchildren around him. 



