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remains. But the most touching scene was when, in passing the public 

 schools along the line of the funeral procession, the children were all 

 drawn up in line in front of the school buildings, until the body had 

 passed by. He was borne to his grave in the Catholic cemetery of the 

 Holy Sepulchre, by eight of his faithful workmen who desired this sad 

 privilege. 



I was so glad the cemetery was not one of the usual cold-blooded 

 sort. The Catholic cemeteries of the United States are not generally 

 among the types of beauty — but the diocesan of the district, Bishop 

 McQuade, is in many subjects among the progressive spirits of our 

 country. He employed a famous landscape gardener, F. R. Elliott, to 

 design the grounds, and, beautiful as so many modern cemeteries are, 

 this will take rank among the foremost. The rare and lovely trees, 

 Virgilia lutea (Cladastris tinctoria), will stretch its arms over him, 

 and I was glad to see him reposing in so beautiful a spot. 



How can men like these be rewarded, except in the consciousness of 

 the good they do. Here was a lad born on a farm near Belfast, who 

 came to America in 1834, first resigning his position as a country 

 schoolmaster to try his luck among strangers in a foreign land. That 

 luck brought him a clerkship in Princes' Nurseries at Flushing, and 

 thus he gained a good knowledge of the machinery of a nursery busi- 

 ness. Falling in with a thoroughly educated young nurseryman from 

 Germany, in George EUwanger, they started the nursery business in 

 Rochester just fifty years ago. Like most young men, they found they 

 had much to learn. Many would have been disheartened. They had, 

 however, the good judgment, so rare in many cases, to turn even dis- 

 aster to profit. This firm was, perhaps, the first to see the enormous 

 capabilities of the fruit tree business, which has since grown to such 

 enormous proportions through the United States. Rochester was then 

 only a small settlement of some 10,000 inhabitants, and I could hardly 

 help wondering how many of the 100,000 or more the beautiful city 

 now contains knew, or cared to know, how much this great prosperity 

 was due to this one man. When the only employment the working- 

 man could get would be at most but a dozen or so in any one place, 

 Ellwauger and Barry took to work several hundreds at a time. Their 

 success was so marked, that numbers followed, and Rochester became 

 a city of nurserymen, and from these radiated younger nurserymen, 

 until almost every State and territory had its nursery, most of which 

 got their fii'st inspiration from Rochester experiences. 



And the city itself — it was not in him to merely make and hoard the 

 money he earned, but to turn it all to account for the beauty and glory 



