154 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1898. 



England fields came to my mind more forcibly than when I 

 visited that locality, and never was a time when I more fully 

 appreciated the fact that not only must you have the natural 

 advantage, you must have the people. Beside your farms must 

 lie your villages ; beside the place where you produce your crop 

 must live the city ; combining the two, you have what we have 

 in Worcester and Worcester County and in Massachusetts. 

 We have our people, we have our manufacturing establishments, 

 we have our farms, and we have enterprise in every branch and 

 every business that is pursued within our city. We have met 

 with success because we have deserved success. It has been 

 wrought out by the ingenuity and perseverance of our citizens ; 

 it has been supported and fostered by your organizations and 

 societies of which your own, as shown tonight, is a high type. 

 It is indeed gratifying when men of intelligence, learning, and 

 standing in the community, as shown by your members and 

 attendance, feel so keen an interest in this department of your 

 society that they give it their support and their aid. May it 

 continue, and may your success be commensurate with what is 

 deserved from the efforts of your members. May it continue 

 to be an ornament to this glorious old city, the Heart of the 

 Commonwealth ; a cit}' which shall grow and continue in pros- 

 perity beyond anything you perhaps recognize or realize today 

 by a growth and expansion, healthy in all its departments, sound 

 in all its undertakings, built up by its citizens with the common 

 purpose to make here a city indeed worthy of the old County of 

 Worcester. 



Mr. Parker. — There has always existed between the mem- 

 bers of this Society and the members of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society the most kindly and cordial relations. 

 This evening we have the pleasure of entertaining its president, 

 the Hon. Francis H. Appleton. 



Hon. Francis H. Appleton. Mr. President, — It gives me 

 great pleasure I assure you to have the opportunity of coming 

 up from the suburban city of Boston and greeting you ladies 

 and gentlemen this evening. It gives me pleasure to come up 



