42 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1874. 



To Miss Abbie Lovell, (West Boylston) for one stand of Seed- 

 ling Gladiolus 1 00 



To Mr. James Comley, for one stand of named Dahlias 2 00 



To H. 'and E. Kinney, for collection of Wild Flowers and 



Berries 2 00 



To Mrs. W. Y. Ilolman, for collection of Parlor Plants 2 00 



Of the collections of Immortelles, there was a fine display; the ones 

 from Mrs. Shaff wanting names only to entitle her to a premium. So 

 also in the display of Ornamental Grasses, all of which should be culti- 

 vated, and not collections from the fields and meadows The first pre- 

 mium for the best six (6) Ornamental Foliage Plants was withheld from 

 the fact that there was a repetition from the best twelve in the collection, 

 (Pine Ajisonii.) Respectfully submitted, 



SAMUEL FLAGG, Chairman. 



REPORT ON PEARS. 



Committee. — Henry L. Parker, Chairman ; Henry Phelps, John C. 

 Newton, James Draper, S. Harrison Knox, Alfred Davis, of Worcester ; 

 Newell Wood, of Millbury ; and John F. Johnson, of Northhorough. 



The plan adopted the present year of reducing to one or two classes 

 the premiums offered for collections and opening the competition for 

 premiums to contributors not meinbers of the Society or resident in the 

 County, has been productive of good results in at least two respects. It 

 has increased the number and raised the standard of entries of single 

 plates, thereby sharpening the competition for the same, while it has 

 also demonstrated or at least suggested with emphasis, what ought long 

 ago to have been more apparent, that the size and weight of specimens 

 are not the only tests of merit. 



In the collection of fifteen plates of the Messrs. Hovey to whom the 

 first premium was awarded, it is worthy of note, that while each plate 

 was of a first-class variety, the prevailing feature was the excellence and 

 perfection rather than the giant proportions of the specimens exhibited. 



Among the more prominent new pears exhibited were the St. Crispin, 

 the Marie Louise. D'Uccles, Gen. Todleben and Goodale. Of the Tod- 

 leben it is unnecessary to speak. It has been grown by a few members 

 of the Society and has been for some time favorably known to many 

 others. 



