2o6 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NECROLOGY. 



During the past year Death has again entered the 

 ranks of our Society and has taken an unusually heavy toll 

 from our membership. 



Following our usual custom, we consecrate, as is most 

 fitting, these final pages of the Report to the memory of 

 those whose loss we mourn. 



Death has robbed us of their presence, but the memory 

 of their good deeds will ever abide. 



Following is the list of those deceased since our last 

 Report was published : 



Dr. Gurdon Wadsworth Russell, of Hartford, died 

 February 3, 1909, at the ripe age of ninety-four years. Dr. 

 Russell was the oldest member of the Society, with which 

 he had been connected for many years. His interest in 

 horticultural matters was remarkable. He loved every 

 growing plant and tree and possessed a keen knowledge of 

 fruits and flowers, which he cultivated for pure love of 

 them rather than for any thought of pecuniary gain. His 

 passing, after a long and useful life, removes one more of 

 that distinguished group of Connecticut horticulturists 

 which numbered such veterans as P. M. Augur, T. S. 

 Gold, Edwin Hoyt and others. Dr. Russell was of Colonial 

 descent, born in Hartford April 19, 1815, the son of John 

 and Martha Wadsworth Russell. He was distinguished in 

 the medical profession, and for nearly sixty years was the 

 medical director of the Aetna Life Insurance Company. A 

 Hartford paper says of Dr. Russell's active life : 



There seemed to be no end to the activities of this man. To 

 his regular professional work, his devotion to the Hartford hos- 

 pital and the retreat, his religious services and political work, not 



