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For fourteen years he served on the Committee on Fruits and ten 

 years on the Committee on Vegetables. He was a constant eontril)- 

 utor to the Society's exhibitions and took many |)rizes for both 

 fruit and vegetables. 



Mr. Hartwell was always ready to show visitors over his fruit 

 farm and to tell them all he knew about the growing of apples, 

 graj)cs, etc., and the visitor felt that Mr. Hartwell grew his apples 

 and grapes because he loved them. One never heard from him 

 the commercial side of the story, but was impressed by his quiet, 

 unassuming way of speaking of the fruits he loved so well. 



In ISSS he was awaixled the Society's prize for the best vineyard 

 of one acre in the state, and also in ISSl a gratuity for a well culti- 

 vated apple orchard. 



By ]\Ir. Hartwell's death the Society has lost one of its oldest 

 members and one who was concerned in its best interests. 



By Wilfrid Wheeler. 



Richard D. Blinn of Lexington, Massachusetts, died in Chicago, 

 February 27, 1906. He had been a member of the Society since 

 J868. 



Clarexce H. Clark, a prominent and public-spirited citizen 

 of Philadelphia, died in that city March 13, 1906. at the age of 

 seventy-three. He was elected an honorary meml^er of the Society 

 in 1900. 



Mr. Clark was president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society from 1895 to 1898, and it was during his term of office that 

 its present horticultural hall was built. He was always much 

 interested in horticulture and was one of the first in the vicinity 

 of Philadelphia to get together a collection of rhododendrons for 

 which his estate has been since noted. From his greenhouses in 

 the early eighties came also some of the first exhibits of large pot- 

 grown chrysanthemums. 



George Dorr of Dorchester, Massachusetts, died April 7, 1906. 

 He had been a member of the Society since 1864. 



Charles H. Smith, formerly of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 



