NECROLOGY, 1907. 



Samuel King Bayley of Westwood, Massachusetts, died 

 January 4, 1907. He ^vas elected a member of the Society in 1904. 



Robert M. Gushing, a member of the Society since 1864, died 

 in London, January 9, 1907. He was the son of John P. Gushing 

 whose well-known estate at Watertown, Massachusetts, was 

 frequently mentioned in the records of the Society sixty years ago. 



Mrs. Robert G. Hooper, who died in Boston, January 13, 

 1907, was the daughter of the late Frederick Lothrop Ames, and 

 like her father was greatly interested in and a generous patron of 

 horticulture. She became a member of the Society in 1902. 



George F. Fabyan, a prominent merchant of Boston, died at 

 his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, January IS, 1907, in the 

 seventieth year of his age. Mr. Fabyan became a member of the 

 Society in 1902. He maintained a fine estate at Brookline and was 

 a liberal contributor of the products of his greenhouses to the 

 exliibitions at Horticultural Hall. In 1905 he was elected a Trustee 

 of the Society for three years, passing away before the completion 

 of his term of office. 



Fernald E. Ham, a member of the Society since 1900, died at 

 Burlington, jNIassachusetts, January 21, 1907, at the age of seventv- 

 one. 



John P. Loftus, a member of the Society since 1875, died in 

 Dorchester, Massachusetts, February 11, 1907, in his sixty-eighth 

 year. Mr. Loftus was a well-known gardener in the vicinity of 

 Boston for many years and at the time of his death was emploved 

 at the Mount Hope Gemetery, Mattapan. He was a veteran of the 

 Givil War. 



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