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delicacy of the flavors of the choice fruits of the orchard than 1 

 felt when in the days of my boyhood I used to pluck from the 

 trees in the garden of my uncle, the first president of our 

 Society, Sopsavine apples and Williams's Early Red and eat 

 them with the vigorous appetite and perfect digestion of our 

 early years. My mouth waters to-night as I think of the juicy 

 cherries and luscious peaches in Dr. Green's garden. I do not 

 remember, sir, the St. Michael pears, specimens of which you 

 stated this afternoon were exhibited at our first exhibition. I 

 fear that the blight which came to trees bearing that kind of 

 fruit in portions of New England had reached Worcester before 

 the time of which I speak. I do remember, however, the de- 

 licious Dix pears that grew in Dr. Green's garden, and the Big 

 Girl apples. The only complaint that I had to make in regard 

 to the Dix pears was, that Dr. Green thought so much of them 

 that he could not make up his mind to part with the crop until 

 the fruit had begun to grow soft. When the pears came to his 

 relatives they had to be eaten in a great hurry. Among the 

 sweetest of memories are those of the flowers which occupied no 

 small portion of my uncle's garden. 



That was no ordinary garden. Dr. Green lived in a house on 

 the west side of Main Street which had been built by his father, 

 the second Dr. John Green. The garden began near the rear of 

 the house and with considerable breadth extended almost as far 

 as what is now Harvard Street. His grounds extended back, I 

 should not dare to say how far over the crest of the hill along 

 which Harvard Street runs into the valley beyond. I remember 

 that I used to go to a meadow beyond North Ashland Street, 

 which was a portion of his land or near it, in my bo^'hood, to 

 pick the beautiful purple fringed gentian. I live, sir, on my 

 uncle's and grandfather's grounds in the house which my father 

 built on Harvard Street, the first house to be built on that street. 



Mr. President, Dr. Green needs no eulogy. He inherited an 

 aptitude for liis profession from his father, grandfather and great- 

 grandfather, all of whom were prominent as physicians in this 

 part of the State of Massachusetts. He had a good general and 

 medical education and an immense amount of that most valuable 

 quality, known as common sense. When to the advantages belong- 



