Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Worcester, MA and a Little History

Dr. John Green (1784 - 1865)

Dr. John Green, the first president of the Worcester County

Horticultural Society (1840 - 44), was born in Worcester.

He studied medicine under his father, later earning degrees

from both Harvard and Brown Universities. He began his own

practice in Worcester in 1807, the fourth generation of Greens

to treat the illnesses of Worcester.

This portrait was painted in 1858 by Edwin T. Billings.

Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Boylston, Massachusetts