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chiefly with the Worcester County Society he was a frequent ex- 

 hibitor of the products of his skill at the exhibitions of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society of which he had been a member 

 since 1895. 



William Frost Hall died at his home in Brookline, Massa- 

 chusetts, July 5, 1906. He was elected a member of the Society 

 in 1867. 



Thomas D. Blake of Brookline, Massachusetts, who died at 

 his summer home in Marblehead, July 17, 1906, was elected a 

 member of the Society in 1905. 



Mr. Blake was born in Cambridge, October 25, 1847. He was 

 a well-known business man of Boston and for thirty years had 

 been connected with the George F. Blake Mfg;. Co., established 

 by his father. 



Mrs. Charlotte N. S. Horner died at her home in George- 

 town, Massachusetts, July IS, 1906. She was born in West 

 Boxford, July 5, 1823, and became a member of the Society in 1870. 



Mrs. Horner was prominent in the exhibitions of the Society in 

 the years between 1870 and 1880 through her exhibits of the native 

 flora of the state in which she was much interested. In 1878 she 

 was appointed on the Window Gardering Committee which was 

 the first attempt on the part of the Society to interest the children 

 in growing plants and flowers. From that date until the present 

 time this work has continued in various forms with marked success. 



George Barnard Brown, a member of the Society since 1867, 

 died at his home in Brookline, Ma,ssachusetts, September 13, 1906. 



Charles Pelham Curtis of Boston died at his summer resi- 

 dence in Swampscott, September 19, 1906, at the age of eighty-two 

 years. He was elected to membership in the Society in 1899. 



INIr. Curtis was born in Boston, July 29, 1824, was graduated 

 fronj Harvard College in 1845, and attained distinction as a lawyer. 



D. Redmond, a corresponding member of the Society since 1875, 

 died in Jacksonville, Florida, September 25, 1906. 



