JOHN MILTON EARLE. 



A special meeting of the Trustees of the Worcester County Horti- 

 cultural Society was convened on Thursday, February 12th, at 4 o'clock 

 P. M., upon a requisition in pursuance of the By-Laws, President Fran- 

 cis in the Chair, who, upon calling the Board to order, announced as the 

 occasion of their being summoned together the recent decease of one of the 

 oldest and most prominent Members of the Society. He briefly enumera- 

 ted the reasons why they should commemorate the death of John Mil- 

 ton Earle. Although not one of the persons named in the Act of In- 

 corporation, he was one of the very oldest Members of the Society, and 

 for a long time one of its Officers. No one has done as much for Horti- 

 culture in this City, and for the Society, as Mr. Earle. His precise knowl- 

 edge of Plants, Flowers and Fruits surpassed that of any one the President 

 had ever met, and was obtained by long, close, and persistent study. We 

 can never expect again to see a man of so much ability so devotedly at- 

 tached to Horticulture. His great loss warranted the Trustees in taking 

 serious and thoughtful action in commemoration of his death, and the 

 President announced that he had requested one of the oldest Members of 

 the Society, the Hon. Stephen Salisbury, to prepare a set of Kesolutions. 



Mr. Salisbury being introduced, read the following: 



Whereas, our President, Dr. Geo. E. Francis, has announced, with ap- 

 propriate and merited eulogy, that the Hon. John Milton Earle, a Trus- 

 tee and a distinguished Member of this Society, died on the Hth inst., at 

 the ripe age of 79 years, 9 months and 25 days, and it is proper that the 

 Trustees should express on their Kecords their views and feelings in re- 

 gard to this solemn and important event ; — 



