174 AVORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1898. 



on the shares, — but she's got lots of Cabbage!" And we can 

 pardon his enthusiasm for we have learned she has more, and 

 better, a heart of sympathy and a hand of liberality. 



As the centuries move on with the heavy tread of the Callenic 

 step of years may this Society be found in the fore ranks of 

 industry, — plowing, sowing, hoeing, growing ; and may the 

 crops it cultivates ever be the ultimatum of good, noble man- 

 hood, and loving womanhood, — and my closing toast shall be : — 



FLOWERS. 



Trembling pilgrims of springtime hours, 



That spring up from Earth's silent bowers, 



In buttercups, daisies, and the yellow dandelion 



Each in the image of its scion ; 



Through the evolution of the ages 



The Monkey has become the Man — 



And the toad progenitor of all the amphibious clan. 



Ere the earth was made, Mayflowers 



Floated on Chaos' unknown sea. 



Guided by the light and the song of the stars — 



Born of germ seed dropped from the Red Planet Mars. 



The yellow primrose is to some 



Only a yellow primrose still, 



While to the cultivated taste it hath become — 



In this progressive age — golden drops 



Of God's mint of coinage. 



The brightest gem of Earth's coronet 



Is not the rose, the pink or the violet. 



But throughout the kingdoms human 



It is God's last, best gift — 



The Queen flower — Woman ! H. 



The Toastmaster. — We are sorry that we are unable to 

 call upon our other guests, but time forbids, and by order of 

 the president, this meeting is adjourned to the floor below. 



