7$ WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1904. 



If the present world is not the very best we can think of, 

 at least it is the one in which we are living now, by the grace 

 of the giver of life, and doubtless the best for us at the present 

 time; else why are we here? 



And if we are to live this life as we should, ought we not 

 to love it and to know it? 



And where shall we begin in this quest if not with the next 

 thing to us, and in what way most hopefully if not with the 

 expectation that we shall find good and not evil, beauty and 

 not uglmess, meaning and not farce, joy and blessing and 

 not disappointment? But to do this is to be ''on the trail 

 of the naturalist," as he exists among us today, and long may 

 abide with us. 



