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the luxuriance of landscape gardening that clusters 

 around and adorns the thousands of homesteads 

 about Boston, through a constantly widening radius, 

 is due directly or indirectly to his influence and in- 

 spiration. And now, at the venerable age of eighty- 

 five, from the quiet retreat of his happy home, he can 

 look back upon a long life well spent, and out upon 

 a region smiling with loveliness, with a consciousness 

 that he is surrounded by a host of admiring and de- 

 voted friends who realize and appreciate the results 

 of his labors and the powerful impetus which his per- 

 sonal presence gave to the spirit of improvement, 

 thirty, forty, fifty years ago. 



On behalf of the Agricultural Club, we wish 

 him still many more years of happiness and useful 

 activity. 



Note. — Messrs. Francis A. Walker, M. Denivl'VN Ross, Charles 

 L. Flint, Benjamin F. Stevens, and Charles R. Train were unable 

 to remain until the end of the Banquet, and kindly sent to the Com- 

 mittee the substance of what they intended to say, as reported in 

 preceding pages. 



