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Mr. Wilder was born at Hingham, ^Massachusetts, April 29, 1825. 

 His interest in horticulture was in a quiet \\ay and only for the 

 pleasure derived from it. His hobby was pear trees; he never 

 grew them for the market but as he used to say, because he loved 

 to see them grow. At one time he had ten thousand; many of 

 these were imported from France and he was very successful in 

 growing them "en espalier." 



When he moved from INIalden to Boston in 1866 he sold the 

 whole lot to a gentleman in Roxbury and I well remember his 

 pleasure on learning that the late jNIarshall P. Wilder pronounced 

 them the finest private collection of trees he ever saw. 



While always interested in the exhibitions of the Society, in his 

 later years he was unable to attend owing to ill health. 



By Mary L. Wilder. 



