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Next, we have the same generous gift from the puhhc 

 spirited and well-known gentleman, the son of one who 

 presided at the first formal call to organize the Society, and 

 whose name is intimately associated with everything con- 

 nected with the early improvements in horticulture around 

 Boston. Need I name John A. Lowell? "Not being 

 able," as he says in his letter to the Society, "to actively 

 cooperate with you, but wishing to contribute in a moderate 

 way, I send you one thousand dollars." May he long be 

 spared to witness the good results of his timely aid. 



And now, standing conspicuously in the group of our 

 many benefactors, we have another name, not only associ- 

 ated with horticulture and agriculture, but with the finer 

 art of landscape gardening. Who does not remember the 

 once and yet elegant demesne at Waltham, where, years 

 gone by, the beautiful deer might be seen bounding o'er 

 the lawn, or gently reposing beneath some graceful elm ? 

 Need I name Theodore Lyman, Jr. ? who bequeathed to 

 us the munificent sum of $10,000, having during his life 

 made the same generous gift as those already named. 

 His memory will be ever dear to us and our successors. 



And yet we have the aid of that kind-hearted and liberal 

 merchant, Josiah Bradlee, whose aim it was to see the 

 effects of his liberality during his own hfe. Not only was 

 his donation of one thousand dollars most gratefully re- 

 ceived, but his many acts of friendship towards the Society, 

 in its time of need, are indelibly recorded in our memory. 



