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manner and openhearted way endeared him to all who were privi- 

 leged to be associated with him. " None knew him but to love him, 

 none named him but to praise." 



Fellow members of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club as we face 

 and draw nigh to the summer twilight of our lives, as we brush the 

 dead leaves from our homeward path with the consciousness that 

 the trees from which they fell are still living and will once again 

 bear leaves, so let us think now, not of Jackson Dawson dead but 

 of Jackson Dawson alive with all the fine qualities of his character 

 going on and on into life beautiful and into life eternal. 



George Augustus Gardner, an old-time merchant of Boston, 

 died at his home in that city August 6, 1916. He had been con- 

 nected with the Society since 1895. 



Professor William R. Lazenby, Professor of Horticulture 

 and Forestry in the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, died 

 September 15, 1916. In recognition of his work in horticulture 

 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Society in 1889. 



William J. Hoyt of Manchester, New Hampshire, a member of 

 the Society since 1905, died at his home in that city, September 26, 

 1916, in his 70th year. 



George Cartwright of Roxbury, Massachusetts, died Novem- 

 ber 2, 1916, at the age of 72. Mr. Cartwright was engaged in the 

 nursery business in Dedham for many years and was well known 

 among the commercial growers of Boston and vicinity. He 

 became a member of the Society in 1885. 



Charles Abner Campbell of Ipswich, Massachusetts, a member 

 of the Society since 1908, died November 18, 1916, in his 79th year. 



In the later years of his life Mr. Campbell was greatly interested 

 in agricultural and horticultural matters. He was a frequent 

 exhibitor of the products of his farm at Ipswich at the exhibitions 

 of the Society. 



Livingston Gushing of Weston, Massachusetts, died in New 

 Haven, Connecticut, November 25, 1916, at the age of 61 years. 

 He was admitted a member of the Society in 1895. 



