WORCESTER COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A. I). 1889. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the MeTYibers of the 



WoKCESTER County Horticultcral Society : 



What the Society has been able to accomplish, during the past 

 official year, in its appointed, peculiar province, will be set forth, 

 with more or less distinctness of outline, elsewhere in this Re- 

 port. Otherwise, — it is possible to congratulate you upon an 

 average measure of success in securing money, wherewith to 

 defray legitimate expenses and meet the levy of invidious taxa- 

 tion. But there are improvements imperatively necessary to our 

 Hall that ought not to be deferred longer. The worst of it all 

 is, that by so mucli the better we make the actual value of our 

 building, by so much wider do we expand the vision, or fancy, of 

 the Assessors ! Yet the wall in the rear must be carried out 

 flush with the line of the Fassage-Way, if we would have the 

 platform in the Hall of Pomona even comfortable ; or wish to 

 protect ourselves from continual encroachment, with ultimate 

 possibility of serious damage. The upper story should be entire- 

 ly remodelled by alteration and enlargement of the Hall of 

 Ceres, or otherwise, as a sound discretion shall elect : so that 

 any party may commence and finish its evening of social pleasure 

 under one and the same roof. Our ground location is admirable ; 

 thanks to the sagacity of our Founders who, if they builded 

 wiser than they knew, at least had the courage to build ! Our 

 halls of Flora and Pomona are of easy access, which is not quite 



