20 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1887. 



visited that place yesterday and found about 600 cases of goods 

 stored, but every case was made up and ready for shipment, which 

 will probably be in about two months. This place has been used 

 for the same purpose by other firms for several years." 



The Assessors doom no portion of Trinity Church, although 

 the Statutes expressly declare that " portions of houses of re- 

 ligious worship appropriated for purposes other than religious 

 worship, shall be taxed at the value thereof to the owners of 

 the houses :" notwithstanding the notorious and offensive fact 

 that its basement has been occupied for years as a Warehouse for 

 the Storage of Boots and Shoes ! Was a single cent ever contrib- 

 uted to the State or Municipal Treasuries, by the Central Parish, 

 during all those years when Col. Drennan was cramming its 

 ground-floor from mudsill to rafter, with casks of prohibited 

 Bourbon and Mcdford ! An exaction of Five Hundred and 

 Eighteen Dollars ($518.00) goes to make good any deficit for the 

 support of the Police, or Fire Department, that such inequitable, 

 because partial, exemption, has tended to create. 



The Bay State Agricultxiral Society^ whose performance more 

 than fulfilled its promise, during its first year of existence ; and 

 whose active work, it is to be hoped, will not end thus prema- 

 turely ; has published offers of generous prizes in money for the 

 three (3) best essays on any agricultural topic. Is there not 

 herein the hint of a policy that might be worthy of our imita- 

 tion ? Why should not this Society propose liberal recompense 

 for Horticultural Essays, to be delivered on afternoons of Win- 

 ter, to be followed, if found advisable, by meetings wherein in- 

 formal discussion should elicit valuable experience ? The prac- 

 tice of this Society, some years ago, when gentlemen from various 

 portions of the Commonwealth laid before you, in this Hall of 

 Flora, the ripe results of their theory and actual experiment, 

 must be fresh in your recollection. That example followed by 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, has since done much to 

 re-vivify that old, sluggish, and sometime — inanimate Association. 

 What the practice accomplished, for your own needs, has not to 

 be recited here, or now. But, by such methods better than any 

 other, are we enabled to learn of novel discoveries; to determine 



