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science and practice of horticulture, particularly complimenting 

 Worcester and Middlesex Counties for the lead they have taken 

 in this direction. Referring to agricultural statistics, he said 

 Worcester County stood the eighth and Middlesex County ninth 

 in the amount and value of farm products in the whole country, 

 Worcester leading in the value of agricultural products and 

 Middlesex in the value of the farms. Speaking of the public 

 parks and their benefits in the cities, Mr. Wood paid a graceful 

 and well-deserved compliment to Mr. Lincoln, chairman of the 

 Worcester Parks-Commission, for the zeal and perfection of his 

 work in its public parks, of which the City might well feel proud. 

 Elm Park, in particular, was an object lesson, the like of which 

 could not be excelled in the State for the beauty and artistic 

 skill with which it is arranged in its winding paths and diversified 

 attractions, natural and artistic. 



President Parkek : — We have with us another old friend. It 

 has been said that Horticulture is the handmaid of Agriculture. 

 I have the honor to present to you Hon. Wm. R. Sessions, 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Mr, Sessions, in responding to the sentiment spoke of the 

 progressive influence of the Horticultural Society on the City, its 

 tendency toward securing the proper care of the parks and 

 streets, and the happiness and pleasure of the people generally. 

 He highly complimented the Worcester Society on the possession 

 of such tine quarters. 



The President then called upon Mr, J. G. Barker, Superin- 

 tendent of Forest Hills cemetery, Boston, who after congratulat- 

 ing the Worcester Society on the results of its fifty years' work, 

 spoke of landscape gardening as applied to cemeteries, instancing 

 Forest Hills in Boston and the beautiful cemetery at Cincinnati 

 as fine examples. He would do away with displays of marble 

 and granite altogether. 



Dr. Homer T. Fuller, President of the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute, was the last speaker of the afternoon. He dwelt at 

 some length, and encouragingly, upon the great influence exerted 



