282 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Chase was born in Warner, New Hampshire, October 21, 

 1829. He was elected a member of the Society in 1864. 



Col. AYalter Cutting of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, died in 

 that town July 23, 1907, at the age of sixty-six. Col. Cutting was 

 a veteran of the Ci^^l War and was prominent in the business and 

 political affairs of the state. He joined the Society in 1900. 



^Irs. ]\Iary Louise Stevens, who died at Brookline, Massa- 

 chusetts, September 17, 1907, had been a member of the Society 

 since 1897. 



]Mrs. Stevens was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 

 9, 1840. In recent years she was much interested in botanical 

 studies, devoting especial attention to the mosses, of which group 

 she possessed a critical knowledge. 



Edgar Sanders, a corresponding member of the Society since 

 1892, died at Chicago, September 29, 1907. ]Mr. Sanders was 

 born in England, October 10, 1827, and came to the United States 

 in 1853, engaging in horticultural work, and later as a commercial 

 florist in Chicago. 



He was also a frequent contributor to the horticultural press and 

 was actively interested in all things pertaining to the advancement 

 of the florists' trade. 



Amor Leander Hollingsworth, a resident of Milton, Massa- 

 chusetts, and a member of the Society since 1895, died October 

 4, 1907. He was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 

 1859. 



Charles W. Hallstram, a member of the Society since 1896, 

 died at West Newton, Massachusetts, October 8, 1907, at the age 

 of fifty-three. 



Mr. Hallstram was much interested in high-bred cattle raising 

 and in the cultivation of plants and flowers. He was a frequent 

 exhibitor of the products of his garden at the Society's exhibitions. 



Solomon Lincoln, prominent in the legal profession in Boston, 



