24 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1895. 



wherein Joseph C. Lovell was so assiduous in persistent and 

 skilful experiment, must be ruthlessly submerged, without a 

 voice raised in remonstrance, that a shiftless waste of water may 

 be continued in the metropolis, whose inhabitants might easily 

 save enough from bath or wash-tub to quench all the thirst they 

 ever experienced for that malarious and maleficent liquid. Re- 

 flect upon the income whereof you are deprived because you will 

 not apply yourselves, with inexorable purpose, to ascertain and 

 determine beyond peradventure the cause of this regular, if in- 

 termittent, barrenness. Since the above was written, on the 

 28th October ult., but nine days ago, quotations of prices for 

 varieties in which we are most directly concerned, in the Lon- 

 don market were as follows : 



Baldwin 14s. 6cl. ^a 17s. 6d. 



Greening lis. 6d. " 12s. 6d. 



Northern Spy 14s. 3d. 



Does not such valuation confirm the prediction that in the ex- 

 haustion of the earlier native supply would be found an oppor- 

 tunity for good American Apples ! 



March 3, A. D. 1842, this Society accepted a charter from 

 the General Court and by the explicit terms of that instrument, 

 engaged — " To advance the science and encourage and improve 

 the practice of Horticulture." For that purpose, with a view to 

 promote the objects of its organization, it has been able in the 

 course of time, through frugality in management and the bounty 

 of generous members, to accumulate means wherewith to con- 

 struct this Hall. In this Horticultural Building, scrupulously 

 restricted within its legitimate dedication, there have been the 

 will and facilities, as occasion served, to extend a helping hand 

 in the formation of numerous societies, of very like intent, and 

 cognate direction with our own. Many years ago we tendered 

 our hospitality to gentlemen who sought to found a New England 

 Agricultural Society. That formation still exists, although its 

 founders were long since gathered to their fathers. Subse- 

 quently, there were opportunity and wish to accommodate the 

 large number desirous of evoking form and order from the 

 methods of mismanagement sadly conspicuous in the conduct of 



