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spoken. This apple was shown nuder its original nnsavory 

 name at the exhibition of 1840, by Tilly Chaffin of Holdeu. 



The Hnbbardston Nonsuch originating in the town of the 

 same name, was also shown in the 1840 exhibition by Samuel A. 

 Knox, then of Grafton, but now of Worcester, and one of the 

 four now surviving who were on the premium list of 1840. 



There is also the Mother Apple which originated in Bolton. 



The Leicester Sweet originating in the town of that name, 

 one of the best, perhaps the best sweet apple of its season. 



The Worcester Spy, an apple which originated in North- 

 borough, and was named by the Society. 



The Stockwell Sweet, a Sutton apple, of a handsome red color, 

 very fair, and a late winter variety of superior quality. The 

 original tree, what there is left of it (alive but no longer pro- 

 ducing fruit), still stands in that part of Sutton known as " Eight 

 Lots," the territory occupied by the first settlers of that town. 

 The descendants of the original owner from whom the apple 

 takes its name know by tradition that it was standing in the 

 same spot in the year 1800, then a young tree and not in bearing. 



There is also the Singletary Russet, also a Sutton apple. 



The Sterling or Twenty Ounce, a native of Sterling. 



The Dawson Apple, a new handsome apple, very promising, 

 originated by our late lamented associate, Thomas A. Dawson, 

 and named by the Society in his honor. Mr. Dawson had also 

 other seedling apples with which he was experimenting and of 

 which he cherished high hopes. 



And still another apple which should be added to this list is the 

 Russet Sweeting. The committee on fruits in their report for 

 1840, make this comment : " This apple we feel warranted in say- 

 ing from good authority, is undoutedly a seedling variety from 

 the farm of the late Dr. John Green, the first of that name in 

 Worcester." 



In accomplishing the work of the Society, the library has been 

 a great auxiliary. The library or its nucleus, for at the begin- 

 ning it could hardly be called more than that, was kept for 

 many years in a single small book-case at the office at the Court 

 House, occupied by Anthony Chase as County Treasurer. From 

 thence it was removed to the rooms of Clarendon Harris, Secre- 

 tary of the State Mutual Life Assurance Co. 



