THE LOWELL BUST. 155 



W. C. Steong, Esq., 



President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Sir, — In behalf of certain gentlemen who wi^h to show their appre- 

 ciation of the great interest evinced by the late Hon. John Lowell in 

 horticulture and rural art, and also to keep in remembrance his active 

 and noble efflirts as one of the earliest members of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, I have caused a bust of him to be executed by Bracket in marble ; 

 and this, at their request, I now present to the Society. 



Respectfully, 



Gko. W. Pratt, Chairman. 

 Boston, Jan. 6, 1872. 



LOWELL BUST SUBSCRIBERS. 



H. HOLLIS HUNNEWELL. JOSIAH StICKXEY. 



C. D. AVhitmore. J. G. Gushing. 



Nathaniel Thayer. H. D. Parker. 



John C. Gray. S. D. Warren. 



G. W. Pratt, W. W. Chenery. 



J. F. C. Hyde. J. Wiley Edmands. 



George Baty Blake. Charles S. Sargent. 



William Claflin. W. Gray, Jun. 



B. P. Cheney. Henderson Inches. 



James S. Amory. S. R. Payson. 



W. C. Strong. B. C. White. 



Albert Fearing. P. J. Lee. 



W. E. Coffin. N. Matthews. 



Voted, Ttiat the thanks of this Society be presented to George W. 

 Pratt, Esq., and the gentlemen associated with him in presenting the bust 

 of Hon. John Lowell, for their valuable gift ; and that the bust be placed 

 ix\ the hall of the Society. 



