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fashioned in form ; and cannot compare, for an instant,"with the 

 shapely dishes of modern invention and manufacture. Having 

 dispensed with the cumbrous Annual Exhibitions, we should not 

 need the ampler equipment that was essential when we essayed 

 to gather in all the fruit of Worcester County. Our Weekly 

 Exhibitions will increase in magnitude, it is likely : but Three 

 Hundred plates now may do the work that would have demanded- 

 as many Thousands, ten years ago. Our apples of gold are not 

 required to be set in pictures of silver. But the credit of the 

 Society seems to render it imperative that the superb specimens 

 of later years should be fairly presented to the eye. Facilities 

 would thus be afforded to exhibitors, who are now put to 

 unnecessary trouble in arranging tiieir articles ; and a saving of 

 time nn'glit result to the Officers of tlie Society, that could be 

 employed to your exceeding benefit. We will not, in our pros- 

 perity, despise the day of small things ; but, when Seckel Pears 

 get to weighing more than a quarter of a pound, on an average ; 

 as happened with every lot, at their appointed exliibition ; it is 

 pretty evident that the time has come for " old things to pass 

 away, all tilings become new." 



An invitation was earl}^ received by your Secretary, from 

 President Marshall P. Wilder, conveying an official request that 

 this Society would send delegates, in such number as it might 

 elect, to attend the Eighteenth (18) Session of the American 

 Fomological Society to be held in Boston during three days of 

 September. In accordance with that invitation, and pursuant to 

 authority conferred upon him, your Secretary in due time issued 

 credentials to the following named gentlemen : 



President, Stephen Salisbury, Jr., Vice-Presidents, Stephen 

 Salisbury, Philip L. Moen, O. B. Hadwen, and Messrs. Francis 

 H. Dewey, William T. Merrilield, George E. Francis, James 

 F. Allen, Charles E. Parker, Alexander H. Bullock, Calvin 

 L. Hartshorn, Frank J. Kinney, John C. Newton, Sylvanus 

 Sears, Henry Phelps, J. Henry Hill, James Draper, William 

 H. Earle, Henry L. Parker, William W. Cook, Charles E. 

 Brooks, Edward W. Lincoln, Frederick A. Blake, Adin A, 

 Hixon, of Worcester ; with J. P. Lynde, of Athol ; Paul 

 Whitin and George Cruickshanks, of Whitinsville ; F. M. Mar- 



