NECROLOGY, 1911. 



Lawrence Carteret Fenno of Boston, a member of the 

 Society since 1899, died at his summer home in Rowley, Massa- 

 chusetts, January 3, 1911, in his 53d year. 



Charles E. Swain of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a member 

 of the Society since 1891, died January 8, 1911, in his 58th year. 

 Mr. Swain was much interested in fruit culture and was a frequent 

 exhibitor at the Society's exhibitions, taking many premiums 

 for the high quality of his products. 



Timothy McCarthy, formerly of Boston, but for many years 

 Superintendent of Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island, 

 died in that city February 10, 1911. He had been a member of 

 the Society since 1869. 



Eben Denton, formerly of Braintree, Massachusetts, and a 

 member of the Society since 1870, died at his home in Dorchester, 

 February 17, 1911, in his 90th year. 



Stephen Willis Tilton of Brookline, Massachusetts, a member 

 of the Society since 1866, died February 19, 1911, in his 78th year. 

 He was associated with his brother, John E. Tilton, in the book 

 publishing business in Boston, well known to horticulturists of 

 the past generation as publishers of the American Journal of Horti- 

 culture from 1869 to 1871, commonly known as Tilton's Journal 

 of Horticulture. 



Miss Jemima Richardson Wilder of Dorchester, Massachu- 

 setts, died February 20, 1911. She was the daughter of the late 

 Marshall P. Wilder and became a member of the Society in 1901. 



John H. Hart, a corresponding member of the Society since 

 1892, died at Trinidad, February 20, 1911, at the age of 64. He 

 had been superintendent of the Botanical Gardens of Trinidad 

 since 1887 and had published many treatises on the economic 

 plants of the British West Indian Colonies. 



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