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William Heath Spooner, a prominent and actively interested 

 member of the Society for more than half a century, died at his 

 home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, March 21, 1908. He was 

 born in Jamaica Plain, April 2, 1833, and had lived there nearly 

 all his life. For some years he was engaged in the nursery and seed 

 business, later making a specialty of rose growing. 



Mr. Spooner was President of the Society in the years 1890, 1891, 

 and 1892, and was a member of one or more committees continu- 

 ously from 1877 to the year of his death. He was also the Society's 

 Delegate to the State Board of Agriculture from 1900 to 1908, 

 inclusive. 



He became a member of the Society in 1855 and was one of the 

 very few remaining members of that period of its history. 



Henry W. Dodd died at his home in Boston, March 29, 1908. 

 Mr. Dodd was born in Bangor, Maine, October 18, 1849. He 

 was engaged in the banking business in Boston for thirty years. 

 He became a member of the Society in 1905. 



Richard Harding Weld, another of the older members of the 

 Society, died in Boston, March 30, 1908. He was born in West 

 Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1835. He was a graduate of Harvard 

 College in the class of '56 and served as captain in the Forty-fourth 

 Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War. He was connected 

 for many years with the firm of Aaron D. Weld's Sons and had 

 been a member of the Society since 1858. 



Warren Ew'ELL, a member of the Society since 1890, died at his 

 home in Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 2, 1908, at the age of 

 fifty-six. Mr. Ewell was well known among horticulturists in the 

 vicinity of Boston as a commercial grower and was for a number of 

 years a prominent contributor to the exhibitions of the Society. 



Franklin Haven, who died in Boston, April 7, 1908, was elected 

 a member of the Society in 1900. He was born m Boston, October 

 11, 1836, graduated from Harvard in 1857, and served as an officer 

 in the army during the War of the Rebellion. He was in later 

 years actively identified with many of Boston's financial and 

 charitable institutions. 



