The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ENTRANCE TO GROUNDS OF O. B. HADWENb RESIDENCE. and increased the value of the property. All the trees, which comprisemany beautiful specimens, and which have attracted much notice amonghorticulturists, were planted by him. For forty years he followed market-gardening and the nursery, also being interested in the milk the fifty-four years of his occupation, he has seen great changes, andthe rural surroundings of his farm have become obliterated by the outgrowthf a great city, but his immediate home and groun
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ENTRANCE TO GROUNDS OF O. B. HADWENb RESIDENCE. and increased the value of the property. All the trees, which comprisemany beautiful specimens, and which have attracted much notice amonghorticulturists, were planted by him. For forty years he followed market-gardening and the nursery, also being interested in the milk the fifty-four years of his occupation, he has seen great changes, andthe rural surroundings of his farm have become obliterated by the outgrowthf a great city, but his immediate home and grounds remain intact. ^Ir. Hadwen is a great lover of the farm and country, and his devotion topractical and scientific agriculture has been equaled in intensity by thorough insight, long experience and sound judgment have beenuniversally acknowledged, and he has a national reputation as a horticulturist.^Ir. Hadwen became a member of the Worcester County HorticulturalSociety in 1S47, and has served as trustee, vice-president, and president, to. ANDREW H. HAMMOND. The Worcester of 1898. 643 ?which latter office he was again, after twenty years, elected in 1895, and stillholds, having been reelected no less than three times. He is vice-presidentof and active in the famous Massachusetts Agricultural Club, which wasorganized April 4, 1S40. He was for many years vice-president and is stilla trustee of the Worcester County Agricultural Society, a member of theAmerican Pomological Society, and is prominent in the MassachusettsHorticultural Society. Mr. Hadwens unusual abilites have been recognizedby the State, and he was for many years a trustee of the Agricultural Collegeat Amherst, where, under his direction as chairman of the board, manyimportant additions were made. He has been one of the commissioners incharge of the public parks of Worcester since 1867, and the value of hisservices in this capacity is evidenced by his continuous appointments to thisposition. Mr. Hadwen has
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