HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 95 



of the eighty-fifth birthday of the Hon. Marshall P. 

 Wilder. Colonel Wilder's career, from his youth to 

 the venerable old age which endears him to all who 

 know him, has been so useful and honorable that not 

 his friends only, but the entire community in which 

 he lives may well pay him a full tribute of respect 

 and admiration. It is with pride and satisfaction 

 that the business associations of the city of Boston 

 can point to him as a representative of that mercan- 

 tile integrity which gives that city its distinguished 

 position among the great commercial centres of the 

 world. His early intimate association with those 

 powerful and distinguished men who have given a 

 lustre to Massachusetts which no attacks have yet 

 bedimmed, cannot be forgotten by those who hold 

 dear the names of Webster and Everett, and their 

 distinguished associates, who always came at his call 

 to encourage and elevate the great industry to which 

 he has devoted all his leisure hours. As the pioneer 

 in all the most beautiful and elaborate modes of 

 cultivation, by which the earth has brought forth an 

 abundant harvest of whatever gratifies man's most 

 refined tastes, he will always be held dear so long 

 as the flowers of the garden, and the choicest fruits 

 of the vineyard and the orchard add their beauty 

 and luxuriance to our homes. 



Not a public park, not a flower-garden, not an 

 orchard, not a field of small fruits, not a vineyard. 



