30 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1874. 



Massachusetts Agricultural, College, ) 

 Amherst, March 9, 1874. ) 



My Dear Sir. — Tour paper on freezing plants has been read with inter- 

 est. I hope you will get a copy of Flint's Report and read my papers on 

 circulation of sap.* Are not our perennial endqgens, grasses, lilies, 

 etc., frozen as solid as the buds of endogens? I ain now investigating 

 these questions, and among other, observations have just determined the 

 amount of sap in the branches of trees. It is from 40 to 60 per cent! It 

 freezes of course. It is surprising to see how the buds of poplars, Avil- 

 lows, etc., which started to expand weeks ago and have been frozen stiff 

 repeatedly since continue to develop every warm day. We have need to 

 make thousands of observation's on our own trees before we thoroughly 

 understand their wonderful structure and individual peculiarities. 



Very Truly Yours, 



W. S. CLAEK. 



No higher authority upon anything connected with the subject of sap 

 can be named than this. Two copies of our reply to the criticism were 

 forwarded to the critic — one addressed to the Gardener's Monthly and the 

 other to the editor by name, without eliciting further criticism. 



WM. T. HAELOW, 



For the Committee. 



We submit the following award of premiums: 



AT THE SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION. 



CLASS 1.— 



For the best six named varieties of ten specimens each, 



S. Sears S 6 00 



For the second best, O. B. Hadwen 4 00 



For the third best, C. Morse, Jr 2 00 



Edward S. Howe, gratuity 2 00 



S. S. Foster, gratuity 2 00 



CLASS 2.— (Single Plates.) — 



For the best ten Eed Astrachan, N. Wood, Millbury 2 00 



For the best ten Duchess of Oldenburg, AVm. Eames 2 00 



For the best ten Golden Sweet, C Morse, Ji- _ 2 00 



*0f the paper referred to, after its reailin^ by Col. Clark before the State Board of Ag- 

 riculture at their Fitcliburg mcetiu^ in December, 1873, the lamented Agassiz, whose at- 

 tenthince there was the last public act of his life, is reported by Mr. Flint to have said to 

 the Board : "The production of this one paper has amply paid for every dollar which the 

 StMtc has thus far bestowed on the Agricultural College." 



Agriculture of Mass , 1873-4; page 205. 



