WORCESTER COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



A. D. 1891. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



2b tJte Members of tlie 



Worcester County Horticultural Society : 



In the winter months of our late HorticuUural year, your 

 attention was invited, and your interest attracted, to a series of 

 Essays and Lectures upon topics of manifold concern and diver- 

 sity pertaining to our chosen pursuit. Collected in one vol- 

 ume, they were promptly })ublished among the Transactions of 

 the Society, where they will be preserved to attest, in some 

 inadequate measure, our ddelity to duty. There are many 

 copies remaining, to which it is hoped appropriate circulation 

 may be given. 



At the conclusion of that series, a Reunion was held, fol- 

 lowed by a Banquet, whereat the attendance of Members of the 

 Society was so large as to exhaust the capacity of our Hall. 

 Upon that occasion your Secretary was requested to respond to 

 a sentiment which, with his remarks, he incorporates here and 

 makes a portion of his Annual Keport, insomuch as its substance 

 consisted largely of topical reminiscences and is entirely devoted 

 to matters of Horticultural moment ; 



" The Worcester County Horticultural Society ! 

 "It has carried out its beneficent work for nearly a half- 

 century : 



"Its mission has been to encourage the cultivation of the 



