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from character or usefulness, to bear the name, the list is 

 lamentably short. If onr own has prospered beyond measure ; 

 if we are still in vigorous career when others that started in equal 

 promise, hsive faded from memory ; shall we now put down a 

 mete or bound wherefrom another generation may be enabled to 

 trace a new departure ! If anything is to be done, there will be 

 no time to waste, in deciding its proper character. What to omit 

 is usually more essential than what to achieve. Hundreds of 

 absurd, if plausible, schemes must be summarily discarded, since 

 the scope of Horticulture, broad as it is, does not comprehend 

 all human interests. A discreet Committee, early appointed, 

 should be competent to evolve some wise and sufficient plan for 

 celebrating an event wherein we have a right to feel such pride, 

 witiiout ensnaring us in the meshes of a multiform trades-pro- 

 cession or plunging the Society in the hopeless bog of political 

 intrigue. 



All which is Respectfully 



Submitted by 



EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN, 



Secretary. 

 Horticultural Hall, Worcester, 

 Worcester County, Massachusetts, 

 November 5, A. D. 1890. 



Postscript. 



Of the few men, famed in Horticulture, whose lives were co- 

 temporary with the existence of our Society ; and whose names 

 dignify our Roll of Honorary Membership ; the number was 

 signally diminished by the death of Patrick Barey. It was 

 never the felicity of your Secretary to enjoy his intimate 

 acquaintance. But, through the correspondence of a lifetime, I 

 had learned to appreciate that rare conscientiousness which would 

 profit by no advantage not honorably gained and was almost 

 painfully sensitive to the fear that, by some mischance, aught 

 might be disseminated untrue to name or report. The reputa- 

 tion of his great nurseries placing him easily at the head of his 



