ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



Secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural Society. 



To The Members of the Worcester County Horticultural Society: 



Re-asserabled in this couvenient and ample Hall, appropriated by your 

 liberality to the especial purposes of the Library; and not less particu- 

 larly, perhaps, assigned as planned for those Weekly Exhibitions to which 

 the Society owes so much of its later prosperity; we may well leave to the 

 curious student of our Records a narrative of the weary steps that pause 

 at last upon the finished threshold of achievement. The tiresome mo- 

 notony of appointment of Committee upon Committee; each anxious for 

 improvement, but afraid or reluctant to initiate it; can there be traced at 

 tedious length. The partial alteration,— the actual and unprofitable en- 

 gagement of rooms elsewhere, — with the tenancy, for years, of Mechan- 

 ics and Washburn Halls, are detailed upon many a page. Although much 

 has been done that could be improved, were it to be done again; and al- 

 though no one of the Committee having the work in charge will pro- 

 nounce himself exactly suited in every respect, still there must be a con- 

 currence of opinion that our property is materially benefited and quite 

 adapted to the uses for which it was first constructed. 



While it is not thought necessary to dilate largely upon the history of 

 this improvement, a few words may be permitted in the ascription of 

 their due meed of praise to those with whom its accomplishment moi'c 



