WORCESTER COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



For the Year Ending, Nov. 1, 1899. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the Members of the 



Worcester County Horticultural Society : 



In presenting for your consideration the Annual Report for the 

 year just closed, I desire to refer to the weather conditions of 

 the year. We have had a long season : six full months there 

 were no signs of frost. The long-continued drouth, which it 

 was thought would prove disastrous to the growers of fruit 

 and vegetables, has been a genuine surprise. The specimens 

 §hown at our Exhibitions of Corn, Potatoes, Squashes, Beans 

 and Cauliflower were handsome and the quality very good. 

 The season has proved to be a very favorable one for Sweet 

 Potatoes ; J. Lewis Ellsworth showing fine specimens and of 

 good quality ; Mr. A. F. Brown of East Douglas, has grown 

 them in quantity and as large and of as good quality as I have 

 ever seen from the South. 



This is not the usual bearing year for Apples, but at no time 

 in an odd year has the exhibition of Apples been better than 

 this. Pears have been fairly good and the exhibition of Seed- 

 ling Peaches very fine. From three sections of the city there 

 have been Peaches shown that were grown by children, bearing 

 the fifth year from the planting of the stone ; the size, shape, 

 color and quality were very good. Such effort on the part of 

 the children should be encouraged and I was pleased to find 



