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March 1, 1874. He carried on the florist's business in Hingham 

 for many years and many a thrifty hedge in that town bears witness 

 to his horticultural skill. He started in business with very small 

 means, bought land and built two greenhouses, and each year 

 found him more successful than the preceding. 



He was a great advocate of cement used in all its various forms, 

 until, at last, in 1909 he built for himself a beautiful cement 

 dwelling house, one of the handsomest in Hingham. He was 

 admitted a member of the Society in 1904. 

 By Mrs. Lois Vining Walker. 



Elijah A. Wood of Newton, Massachusetts, a member of the 

 Society since 1891, died in Chicago June 1, 1912. Mr. Wood was 

 born in Newton April 22, 1859. He came from a family deeply 

 interested in horticulture; his father, the late E. W. Wood, his 

 mother, and his two brothers, all were prominently identified with 

 the Society, and well known in horticultural circles in the vicinity 

 of Boston. 



Thomas Doliber of Brookline, Massachusetts, died June 5, 

 1912, in his 76th year. Mr. Doliber was much interested in the 

 culture of the chrysanthemum and was a frequent exliibitor of the 

 products of his greenhouses at the exhibitions of the Society of 

 which he had been a member since 1895. 



John Allgood Pettigrew of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a 

 member of the Society since 1898, died July 2, 1912. Mr. Pettigrew 

 was born in England April 25, 1844, and came to this country in 

 1865, engaging in horticultural work, first in Chicago, and after- 

 wards in Milwaukee and Brooklyn. In 1897 he came to Boston 

 as Superintendent of Parks, holding that position at the time of his 

 death. 



Mr. Pettigrew was actively interested in the affairs of the Society, 

 serving as a member of several committees and as a Trustee from 

 1904 to the present year. He was an eminent authority on all 

 matters relating to horticulture and landscape gardening, and his 

 work in connection with the Boston Parks, especially, placed him 

 at the head of the park superintendents of the country. 



