MEMORIAL OF CHARLES ELIOT. 143 



been vastly promoted by the productions of his accomplished pen, 

 and horticultural interests have gained in solid development by his 

 untiring labors. His life work remains an enduring monument to 

 perpetuate bis memory. 



Herewith we desire briefly to place upon the record of this 

 Society our deep sense of the loss whicli hoi'ticulture has sustained 

 by his death. 



O. B. Hadwex, ^ 



E. W. Wood, ^ Committee. 



Robert Manning, J 



The report was unanimously accepted and adopted. 



Benjamin M. Watson, Chairman of the Committee to prepare a 

 memorial of Charles Eliot, presented the following report : 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society wishes to record here, 

 through the Committee appointed for the purpose, the death of 

 Charles Eliot, of Brookliue. 



It is seldom that such deep public regret is so conspicuously 

 shown at the death of so young a man ; we, as members of a 

 Horticultural Society, have peculiar reason to mourn. 



No one of the present generation has shown greater ability in 

 matters pertaining to the art of gardening on an extensive scale 

 than Mr. YA'xol. From the lime of his graduation to the time of 

 his death all his strength and energy had been given to the im- 

 provement of public lands and private grounds. 



Mr. Eliot became a member of this Society November 4, 1893. 



After graduating at Harvard he took a course of one year at the 

 Bussey Institution, spending much time in studying the trees and 

 shrubs in the Arnold Arboretum, often coming back for this pur- 

 pose after his course was finished. He soon entered the office of 

 Frederick L. Olmsted, as a student ; first, however, spending some 

 time in Europe, familiarizing himself with foreign parks and 

 gardens. On completing his studies with Mr. Olmsted he estab- 

 lished himself in business in Boston, and soon obtained numerous 

 clients. 



It was at this time and later, while he was a member of the firm 

 of Olmsted, Olmsted, & Eliot, that he became identified with 

 thos3 undertakings by which he will be long remeratiered. While 

 a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club he was one of tiie 



