6 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1899. 



permitted to hold real estate to the amount of $1500, and per- 

 sonal property to the amount of $2000. Until 1850 the amount 

 of funds received was $3611.52. 



By the will of Hon. Daniel Waldo the Society was left $3000, 

 and with the funds the land was bought on Front street for 

 $6847.30, and the building erected for $11,278.25, making 

 the total cost $18,125.65. The building has twice been altered 

 and improved, at nearly double its original cost, until it is 

 now adequate for all the needs of the Society. I am the 

 only person living who contributed to the exhibition in 1841, 

 also who attended the meeting at the office of Anthony Chase, 

 County Treasurer, when the committee was chosen to buy the 

 land and build Horticultural Hall. The members were Stephen 

 Salisbury, Frederick W. Paine, William M. Bickford, William 

 T. Merrifield, William Workman, Horatio N. Tower and D. 

 Waldo Lincoln. 



Lieut. HATHAWAY. 



I CERTAINLY did uot comc here as a speaker, l)ut as a listener. 

 Horticulture, to your President, is like a school-book which he 

 has learned from cover to cover. I stand here as one of the 

 two living charter members of this Society. I feel that I have 

 done something for this Society. That is, in the decoration of 

 the window trimmings of this building;. I was then enffasfed in 

 terra cotta work, and these beautiful window trimmings were 

 designed especially for this building. As you have probably 

 noticed, they are a combination of fruits and flowers. I wish 

 I could speak to you with the vigor that two-score years would 

 give a man, but which four-score years will not allow a man to 

 carry. Who can tell what makes the seed to grow? It is 

 dropped into the bosom of the earth, and in a short time 

 springs up and bears beautiful blossoms. So it will be with us. 

 We will be laid in this earth only to rise up in the earth of 

 immortality. 



