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of his adopted town. The only thing I ever knew him decline to do 

 was to be put in nomination as mayor of this great city, and to which, 

 thougli the political party with wiiich he was affiliated was largely in 

 the minority, he would have, in all probability, been handsomely elected. 



He and his beloved partner, EUwanger — for they had worked 

 together through life in outside affairs, as well as in the nursery busi- 

 ness — had just about completed an enormous building, to be rented out 

 for business offices — 108 offices in the one building. Every day he 

 would think that on the morrow he would go and look at the finishing 

 touches of this magnificent enterprise ; but it was left for me, his 

 many year friend, to examine it for him. 



I pen these lines to you because I know how much he prized the 

 English horticultural periodicals — how continuously his thoughts wan- 

 dered towards the lovers of gardening he had left in the Old World 

 behind him, and I have thought I could do no better service to those 

 whom he loved than to offer this brief sketch of his career as an exam- 

 ple for their encouragement. It is given to every man to do something 

 for his life work. I know of no one who did so much, and did that 

 much so well, as Patrick Barry ; and I know that the gardeners of the 

 Old World will share with me the exultation that such a man was one 

 of themselves. 



THOMAS MEEHAN, 



Germantown Nurseries, 

 Philadelphia, U. S. A. 



— The Gardeners' Clironicle. 



