STONYCROFT GARDENS 
HONORING A PAEONY GROWER 
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has honored E. .J. Shaylor of Wellesley with 
its gold medal for his services to horticulture in improving, importing and distributing 
new and rare Paeonies. Mr. Shaylor before taking up Paeony culture was twenty years 
with the Meriden Cutlery Company, Meriden, Conn, lie has been growing Paeonies for 
the past eleven years and has had most wonderful success with them. He has seventeen 
acres of land nearly all occupied with his favorite flower, lie grew the Paeony first as a 
hobby, but now he. does a large and increasing business. He read an excellent paper on 
Paeonies a few weeks ago, before the Gardeners and Florists’ Club of Boston, which was 
printed in the “Exchange” of May 27th. 
(“Florists’ Exchange,” N. Y., June 17th, 1911.] 
UNDERWOOD, VAN VORST & HOYT. 
2f> Broad Street, New York. 
June 21st, 1911. 
E. J. Shaylor, Esq., 
Wellesley Farms, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Shaylor: — 
Many thanks for your long and kind letter, and my congratulations to you on the 
receipt of the honor conferred upon you by the Massachusetts Society, and my compli- 
ments to that society for showing such excellent judgment in the bestowal of the Gold Medal 
upon you. 
Faithfully yours, 
FREDK. R. VAN VORST. 
II K M I NGTON- 1 J ROIJ 1 1 A RT PR KSS 
284 Congress St., Boston 
