BANQUET 



TO THE 



HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 



On the twenty-second day of September, 1883, the 

 Hon. Marshall P. Wilder completed the eighty- 

 fifth year of his age. A short time previous, a few 

 of his friends, members of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, desiring to testify their apprecia- 

 tion of his services to that association, and to other 

 institutions with which he had been connected, con- 

 ceived the idea of tendering to him a banquet to 

 commemorate his birthday. A Committee, consist- 

 ing of Messrs. Charles H. B. Breck, Robert 

 Manning, and John C. Hovey sent out invitations 

 to the personal friends of Mr. Wilder, belonging to 

 the various institutions in which he is interested, 

 to join them in tendering to him the honor of a 

 dinner at the Parker House, in Boston. The idea, 

 so appropriately conceived, was admirably carried 



