20 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1891.. 



simple act of justice to both parties to make public ackuowl- 

 edixment of their mutual relations. 



And there is Nirvana ! " unto the Jews a stuml)ling-block 

 and unto the Greeks foolishness." But still who may duly 

 measure the peace that passeth all understanding which shall 

 befall the weary Horticulturist, whose Pears fall short an ounce, 

 as he enters within those welcome gates and suffers his soul to 

 invite itself under those seductive influences I Masters of the 

 Grange succumb to the temptation ; and mayhap the very War- 

 dens and Vestry will find their strict Episcopacy yield to the 

 insidious lure which laps them in a newer and theosophical 

 Elysium. There are some ; — not a few, if their name be not 

 legion ; to whom a whiff from the corn-cob of Democracy, or 

 the higher-toned clay-pipe of Kepublicanism, is, at times, quite 

 indispensal)le. Heretofore, it could be had, out of place and at 

 great personal discomfort. But, when next the Society sum- 

 mons its Members to a social reunion, your Secretary feels sure 

 that the President will not be obliged to clamber over rafter and 

 truss in a vain search, throughout a cluttered garret, for the 

 Nirvana that is ever elusive. 



In old times — remote almost as "the days when we went 

 gypsying," it was customary of a Thursday evening during the 

 Annual Autumnal Exhibition, for the Judges to make report 

 upon the subjects committed to their observation and charge. 

 It was a wise practice and, if only because of its obvious util- 

 ity, one that should never have been suffered to lapse into 

 nocuous desuetude. The casual notice that most of us can take, 

 in the distraction and rush of Exhi))itions, of the Flowers and 

 Fruit placed ui)on our tables, carries with it little instruction. 

 The constant watch and comparison from one exhibition to 

 another; followed up for successive years by the expert Judges 

 that it is our felicity to possess ; should be wi'itten down for in- 

 formation and preserved for permanent record. The eye would 

 no longer be offended l>y the careless hitrusion of such })ara- 

 graphs as that which, describing the recent " Shrewsbury Town 

 Fair,"* gave expression to the following rash challenge of past 



* Evening Gazette, Oct. 7. 



