1877.] REPORT OP THE SECRETARY. 31 



The next succeeding mail brought another letter from Mr. Goshorn 

 announcing that an "Award" had been recommended and decreed to this 

 Society, as such for " Forty-three (43) dishes of Pears, from seventeen 

 " growers. This collection is one of very great merit, showing the in- 

 " telligent culture necessary to produce such handsome fruit in a very 

 " unfavorable season." 



Your Secretary also holds in possession, or qualified trust, a similar 

 Notification from Director-General Goshorn, wherein the " Worcester 

 County Agricultural Society " is informed that it has been adjudged 

 worthy of an Award for " Peodtjct " Pears. As the "Worcester Agricul- 

 tural Society" made no Exhibit — whether of pears or cabbage-heads — its 

 vigilant Secretary thought thnt there must be some mistake. In that 

 opinion your own Secretary might readily concur, had he not been fully 

 possessed with the Scripture that men often gather where they have not 

 strewn. 



Awards were also decreed to individual members of our Society, as 

 follows, viz.: 



William H. Earle, " for six varieties of Pears, all large and well-grown, 

 " including the Bartlett and Beurr^ Clairgeau, which are exceptionally 

 "fine. 



John C. Newton, " for one dish of ' Paradise of Autumn ' Pears which 

 " are grown to great perfection." 



Newell Wood (Millbury, Mass.), "for one plate of ' Doyenn^ Boussoc,' 

 " very finely grown — perfect in form and color." 



Edward W. Lincoln, "for one plate of ' Beurr^ Bosc,' and one of 

 " ' Washington,' both of which are very attractive dishes of fruit." 



Mrs. George A. Chamberlain, " exhibits one dish of the ' Howell,' 

 *' very finely grown and exquisitely colored." 



O. B. Hadwen, " for one plate of Ananas d' Etd, fine in size, perfect 

 " in form, and beautifully colored." 



The Diplomas and Bronze Medals which constitute those " Awards" 

 deserve to be safely preserved, and might well find a permanent custodian 

 in this Society. 



The Keport of your Secretary for A. D. 1876 contained the following 

 passage: — " Upon one feature of this Pomological Exhibition, however, 

 it would be impossible to enlarge in too sti'ong terms of censure. Massa- 

 chusetts, Ohio and New York were wholly unrepresented upon the Com- 

 mittee of Judges. The exclusion of their statues from funeral proces- 

 sions in the decadence of Ancient Kome, but served to recall to mind 

 even more vividly the patriots Brutus and Cassius. And who of us, in 

 looking through the roll of those who had been selected to adjudicate 

 upon ' Northern Pomological Products,' could fail to note with amaze- 



