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WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[1874. 



For your more precise intelligence of this whole matter, the more 

 necessary as your co-operation is asked in a complete and sweeping ap- 

 plication of the general principles, a table is appended of the Entries of 

 Pears, at each Exhibition, whether in Classes or as Single Plates : 



SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION". 



Aggregate of Pears in September, 



1,440 



OCTOBER EXHIBITION. 



Aggregate of Pears in October, 



4,668 



Besides which there were offered, in the Classes where they were in- 

 appropriate, or for exhibition, exacting space that was illy spared, fifty- 

 one (51) plates containing six hundred and twelve specimens. 



A simple analysis of these figures supplies its own commentary. Four- 

 teen (14) contributors to these two Exhibitions demanded and must have 

 room for one hundred and tliirty (130) plates, containing fifteen hun- 

 dred and sixty (1560) specimens; whereas the display of forty-five 

 hundred and forty-eight (4548) Pears excited the emulation and nerved 

 the zeal of one hundred and three (103) competitors. Whatsoever was 

 choicest and fairest — that which would arrest and rivet attention— in fact, 

 the pick and cull from the entire crop was eliminated for array upon the 

 Sino-le Plates. Class One (J) the collection of fifteen varieties between 

 which the diversities of appearance, size, and flavor might be as wide as 

 the poles are apart, should be welcome to whatever remained after Class 

 Two (2), with its Single Plates, was filled. 



