EXCELSIOR 
JM Park lliiw, New VorU. 
) S‘2 iruttnln Wt., ISorlu'Hler 
| g.'i.OO PER YEAR. 
{ Single IVo., Eight. Centn. 
FUR. THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER l 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by D. D. T. Moore, in tko Clerk’s Otllce of the District Court of the United States for the So uthern Distr ict of New York.] 
Colonel VVi i ,dior to practice, more or less, 
the loved pursuit of his life, anti enjoy, as 
far as possible, the hours of life not neces¬ 
sarily demanded by liis mercantile business, 
caused him to purchase a country seal in 
Dorchester, originally built by Coventor 
Increase Sumner, on the Roxbury line, 
then about three and a half miles from, 
but now a part of, Boston. Here lie lias 
ever since, as now resided, in, us Our 
sketch shows, (see Figure I.) a plain, unpre¬ 
tending style of house, for these days, which 
he has changed but little outwardly from 
its original character, but within which, 
as well as all around it, the evidence of his 
tasle. and Ins love of the beautiful, combined 
with daily usefulness and Improvement, are 
met. at every step, Tin's sketch is taken Worn 
the road or streetway, just beyond ihe en¬ 
trance or gateway of Ihe drive into the 
grounds. The* Walling and elevation of 
ground between the house, and street exhibit 
the chuiigo. of grade which has been made 
by road ordinances since the const ruction' ot 
the house. 
The second view (Figure 2,) is taken from 
just south of the house, standing out upon a 
small lawn, in which (lowers in position 
abundantly bloom in their season, while at 
a selfish and unjust 
rather than a divine 
influence of a good 
and benevolent pur¬ 
pose. It is not, there¬ 
fore, every grower of 
fruits, flowers and 
vegetables, or every 
occupant of a rural 
home, that can be 
classed as a horticul¬ 
turist. He who can 
lay claim to be truly 
so classed, must have 
embodied in him that 
love for the advance of 
his occupation, that 
desire for the good and 
welfare of his fellow- 
man which shall ever 
and always keep him 
from so pressing the 
items of his life pursuit 
more to a personal gain 
than a general good 
and advance of knowl¬ 
edge. 
With these few pro* 
thtory remarks,we now 
introduce to the read¬ 
ers of the Ilium, New- 
Yorker a name with 
which many, very 
familiar, as 
time, for one so young, 
of great honor and 
trust. His taste for mili¬ 
tary tactics was such 
that, at the age of six¬ 
teen he was enrolled in 
the New Hampshire 
militia; at twenty-one 
ho was commissioned 
as Adjutant; at twen¬ 
ty-five as Lieutenant- 
Colonel ; and at twen¬ 
ty-six us Colonel, from 
whence comes the title 
by which his best 
friends now generally 
address him. 
In 1825 he removed 
from Rindge to Bos¬ 
ton, tv here he engaged 
in trade, and has con¬ 
tinued to the present 
time, haring p08Md 
through various cri ■ 
of commercial embar¬ 
rassment, and yet h&8 
i" 
T :' \ liia obligations and 
1 -irv maintain an honorable 
reputation, 
5>', The first of Mr. 
'4 Wil^eh’s Uorticultur- 
i \, al position which we 
have to record dates 
from the early history 
of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society,whore incompany with 
Gen. Henry, A. S. Dearborn, its first Presi¬ 
dent, and a foAV others, he aided in the pur- 
ntnts trial 
EMINENT HORTICULTURISTS.—! 
BY F. U. ELLIOTT. 
Mavnlinll Pinckney Willin' 
Books arc supposed to contain records of 
knowledge front which to compare the 
views and practices of llie present day with 
those of past. time. Journals like the Rural 
New'-Yorker are supposed to contain re¬ 
cords of the predent, and to embody and 
average views and practices in consonance 
with the demands of intelligence and prog¬ 
ress that mark our country. The lives of 
men of note, those who have, by the use of 
the “ talents” given them,placed themselves 
in prominent, and useful positions among 
their fellow men, arc generally written, and 
at their death published, because no full 
biography can truly be written until the 
completion of the actor’s life; but there is 
no good reason why a certain amount of the 
record of a man’s acts should not be given 
in his life-time ; especially when that record 
is full of items of knowledge, and present ing 
ail example bearing upon a subject of life 
occupation that ministers to the general 
good of all. 
The thought tiff man, the searcher alter 
intelligence, is ready at any and all limes to 
concede to and to gain knowledge as well 
from the living as the dead—to believe that 
the good of man may be appreciated and ac¬ 
knowledged as well while that man is among 
us as after his death; and all such will, we 
believe, congratulate and assist us in our 
many, are 
associated always with 
records of pri>gress and M. 
good in horticulture: 
a name that stands first and foremost—as 
we now place it — among many worthy 
associates whose names and records ol good 
Mit. Wilder's Boston Residence — View from tiik South. 
expense, care or labor to import, introduce 
and disseminate varieties after having fully 
tested their value by fruiting them in Ids 
own grounds. Of this class alone lie has 
tested over twelve hundred varieties, while 
grapes, cherries, plums and the whole class 
of the smaller fruits have yearly given him ot 
their varieties, whether originated in any ot 
the United States, the Canadas, France, Ger¬ 
many or any other foreign land. Ilia grounds 
are. full of information to the observing stu¬ 
dent of Horticulture, and are ever open to 
those who wish to learn. 
Figure 8 is a view taken in winter of a 
part of his pear orchard of over three thou¬ 
sand trees, in which ihe celebrated pear 
known as Beurre d’Anjou, ami which Air. 
Wilder was the first to introduce and com¬ 
mend, still takes the lead. These trees ex¬ 
hibit, somewhat of irregularity, caused from 
the great need at times of somewhere, in a 
limited place, to plant trees for experiment, 
which trees, after fruiting and round—as a 
large majority of kinds are—valueless, wc 
removed, while the valuable sorts were per¬ 
mitted to remain for further experiment, 
| chase of the grounds, laying out and estab¬ 
lishing Alount Auburn 
- » as a Cemetery and 
s t •" Ex pert mental Garden. 
t y, This combination of 
r . a Ceraete *Y um ^ ( hir- 
\]£ den did not, as of course 
. w\f it could not, long con- 
iy /k'feH'MWwF lim,c ' tVH. Wilder 
Mm faV'MKnmm\ foresaw this, and at bis 
wflp 1 v t/li wri fir 1 motion a Committee 
\ vM; cri\ Al K . was appointed to agree 
/M\lV upon terms of sepa- 
mn' \ ral ‘ on * 'fills may per- 
vl\ vPf *' haps be considered one 
of the most important 
, V&f an, l truly beneficial 
SfH |f - acts of Mr. Wilder’s 
V ( vj y J life, securing, as it did 
W 'Sjp’aC by lijs conciliatory 
sense — the name ot 
Marshall Pinckney 
Wilder. 
Born September 22, 
1798, at Rindge, New’ 
Hampshire, lie is the 
oldest son of the late 
Samuel Locke Wil¬ 
der, Esq., and at this 
day numbers seventy- 
one years of a life full 
in its record of con¬ 
tinued usefulness, dur¬ 
ing and amid the cares 
whereof he lias never 
once lost sight of, 
or neglected, an oppor- 
Fig. 3. —Part of Mr. Wilder’s Peak Orchard in Winter 
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