WORCESTER COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



A. D. 1888. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the Members of the 



WoKCESTEK County Hokticultural Society : 



The death of President Dewey, occurring suddenly and when 

 it did, prechided the possibility of calling the Society together to 

 take appropriate action prior to his burial. There was barelj' 

 time to convene the Trustees. The proceedings of that Board 

 are extended at length upon its Records and were published in 

 full by the contemporary press. Tour cordial concurrence in 

 their tenor and tone is not doubted. Tou are however advised 

 of what your Trustees could not know, that the interest in this 

 Society which was so consistently manifested throughout his whole 

 life did not end with his mortal existence. The fund that he 

 bequeathed for the increase of your Library will supply a lasting 

 and visible memorial of his concern for your permanent, best 

 welfare. 



" As for man his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so 

 he flourisheth." 



" For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place 

 thereof shall know it no more." 



But if we can never again lay eyes upon our late President ; 

 if the cheery recognition is missing, and the prompt decision 

 fails ; yet, thanks to the sympathy of those to whom he was 

 nearest and dearest, his almost speaking likeness shall grace our 

 walls so long as this Hall may endure. For so much let U3 be 



