40 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1879 



sanguine hopes are evidently to be amply justified by a felicitous 

 concurrence of time and experiment: — 



" Sic itur ad astra." 



This Society was officially invited, in the early Summer, to 

 send delegates to the Seventeenth Session of the American 

 PoMOLOGiCAL SOCIETY, — to be held in Rochester, New York. 

 According to a practice, of original establishment and subse- 

 quent acquiescence, credentials were issued by the Secretary, to 

 the following representative Members : — 



William T. Merrifield, Stephen Salisbury, Philip L. Moen, 

 Obediah B. Hadwen, James F. Allen, George E. Francis, Henry 

 Phelps, William H. Earle, Frank J. Kinney, Henry L. Parker, 

 George Cruickshanks, William W. Cook, Calvin L. Hartshorn, 

 F. M. Marble, John C. Newton, Edward W. Lincoln. 



Some of those delegates attended, although fewer than could 

 have been desired. It is to be feared, however, that such will 

 always be the case so long as the American Pomological Society 

 persists in holding its meetings at a season when every one is 

 busy. The date would not be objectionable, perhaps, were it 

 the simple aim and end of the American Society to hold an 

 Exhibition of Fruit. But the actual inspection of specimens is 

 not the purpose of those sessions. 



Should the Eighteenth Session of the American Pomological 

 Society be held in Boston, as, in the Divine Mercy * may be the 

 case, it is suggested for your seasonable consideration whether 

 it might not be courteous, and eminently proper, for this Society 

 to ask that one day be set apart for a visit to Worcester. 

 Reasons in plenty may be adduced, as occasion serves, why 

 such an invitation should be tendered and accepted. It is suffi- 

 cient, now, to direct your thoughts to reflection upon the 

 subject. 



Your Secretary has proposed to himself, in occasional 

 moments of enthusiasm, to indulge in speculation upon the 



* The life of Marshall P. Wilder being prolonged, in response to a common prayer. 



