WORCESTER COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOOLETT. 



A. D. 1887. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the Members of the 



Worcester County Horticultural Society. 



Any Report to this Society, whicii should omit to acknowledge 

 our great indebtedness to a portion of our members, for the per- 

 sistent devotion and enthusiasm whereby the signal success of 

 our exhibitions has been assured, might better be left unwritten. 

 No one can appreciate, so well as your officers whose duty it has 

 been to remain in constant presence, the continuous attendance 

 and tireless labor that, from week to week, crowned your tables 

 and replenished your stands. There are ladies and gentlemen, 

 whose names will occur to you at once, who seem never to grow 

 weary in well-doing. It is no light matter to spare so much 

 time. But only those who have nurtured the young plant; and 

 watched with ever-increasing interest its development into the 

 perfect flower; can measure the self-sacrifice that surrenders it, 

 a free-will offering, for your enjoyment and instruction. No 

 amount of premiums can recompense such zeal : but the least 

 that this Society should do is to recognize its existence and show 

 that its manifestation is estimated at its full and generous value. 



People who base an opinion as to the success of our Exhi- 

 bitions, from week to week, upon the reports in the contemporary 

 newspapers, are quite liable to be misled. Those brief statements 

 are prepared in haste, by young men whose horticultural educa- 

 tion is somewhat deficient, howsoever good their intentions. The 



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