Stickney Pond, 1894.

Stickney Pond, 1894.

Nature photography.; Stickney, Josiah -- 1789-1876.;

Stickney Pond, 1894, currently located on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind. The Stickney estate is the current grounds of the Perkins School of the Blind. Josiah Stickney specialized in dahlias, which were a new variety of flowers. He also had orchards and fruit and flower gardens for which he hired many of the Crawford family members to cultivate. He almost left his estate to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for experimental gardening.

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