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WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



[1876. 



At a meeting of the Trustees, held pursuant to a special notice, the 

 whole matter of a proper representation of the Society at the Centennial 

 Exhibition, was referred to a Committee composed of the President, 

 Secretary, and Treasurer, with power to act No immediate steps were 

 taken, as none seemed urgent. But, upon a later notification from the 

 Director-General of the Exhibition that a Pomological Display was defi- 

 nitely assigned for a certain date, the Committee met and approved a 

 proposition from your Secretary, to invite and hold a competitive trial of 

 select specimens of Apples and Pears, on Wednesday, the 6th day of 

 September, ult. ; the varieties, whether of Apples or Pears, being such 

 as were specified in the schedule of the Society. An earnest appeal to 

 the Pomologists of the County was also published in the newspapers of 

 the city of Worcester, soliciting their co-operation and support. The 

 response, although not so general as had been hoped, was, nevertheless, 

 encouraging, and indicative of cordial sympathy. There were eighty- 

 nine (89) plates of Apples offered, from wliich fifty-three (53) were se- 

 lected. For the information of the members of the Society, and espec- 

 ially for the guidance of those who shall be its officers in 1976, a list of 

 the varieties transmitted to Philadelphia is herewith submitted. 



Alexander, 



Baldwin, 



Beauty of Kent, 



Beauty Mills', 



Beauty Sutton, 



Colvert, 



Chenango Strawberry, 



Codlin, (Dutch), 



Cogswell, 



Drap d'Or, 



Foundling, 



Gravenstein, 



Greening, R. I., 



" (Nameless), 



Hamburg, 2 plates, 

 Hawthornden, 

 Hubbardston Nonesuch, 

 Jewett's Fine Red, 

 King of Tompkins County, 

 Leland's Spice, 

 Lovell, 



Pippin, Holden, 2 plates, 



" York, 



" Nash, 



" Worcester Count}-, 



" Fall, 

 Pomme Water, 

 Porter, 2 plates , 

 Primate, 

 Russett, Golden, of Mass., 



" Sweet, 2 plates, 



" Roxbury, 2 plates, 



" Singletary, (Millbury), 

 Spy, Northern, 

 Spy, Worcester, (local) 

 Sweet, Pumpkin, 2 plates, 



" Ramsdell's, 



" Leicester, (local) 



" Native, 



" Tallman, 



" Stockwell Winter, 



" Weyer, 



