42 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1876. 



Tor Tritoma in bloom, Mr. F. J. Kinuey 1 00 



For stand of superb Zinnias, Mrs. Geo. H. Estabrook 2 00 



For dish of Wild Berries and Autumn Leaves, Mrs. M. E. 



Woodward 1 00 



For basket of Dried Ferns and Leaves, Mrs. S. E. Fisher 1 UO 



For vase of Dried Grasses, Miss Mary Hastings 1 00 



For Hanging Basket, Mr. S. Salisbury 2 00 



For Anchor of wild berries, Miss Mary Cummings Shrewsbury. 2 00 



Owing to the fine display in every class of plants and flowers, the 

 Committee found great difficulty in deciding how to award the premiums 

 satisfactory to all contributors. Trusting, however, that all concerned 

 will concur in our decision, we submit the above report. 



SAMUEL FLAGG, Chairman. 



KEPORT ON PEARS. 



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

 Newton, James Draper, of Worcester ; and Newell Wood, of MUlbury. 



The Committee on Pears respectfully submit the following report : 

 Although the season has not been particularly propitious, no finer fruit, 

 as a whole, has been shown at our annual exhibitions. The Committee 

 were inclined to attribute this to the single entry system, believing that 

 the effect of that system is to induce more care on the part of contribu- 

 tors in the selection of specimens. 



The venerable President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 in his address before the Pomological Convention at Boston, a few years 

 since, advanced the theory that the time was soon coming when cultiva- 

 tors would be compelled to give to our native varieties of Pears the first 

 rank, as being better adapted to our peculiarities of climate and soil. It 

 is noticeable in confiimation of this theory, that at each succeeding exhi- 

 bition our native Pears are coming to the front. It will be seen that 

 upon the Society's list for cultivation the native pears are largely in the 



