62 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1892. 



ciency in Horticultural or kindred science, to grace the occasion 

 with their presence. The form observed was as follows : 



WORCESTER COUNTY 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Worcester, Mass., February 2d, A. D. 1892. 



Dear Sir : 



The Worcester County Horticultural Society proposes to 



CELEBRATE THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS INCORPORATION BY LaW, 



on Thursday, the Third day op March, next, at its Hall on 

 Front Street. 



An Address, Historical and Narrative, will be delivered by 

 Hon. Henry L. Parker, President of the Society, at 3 o'clock, 



P. M. 



The Society will hold a Banquet at 6.30 p. m. 



Will you do the Society the favor to become its guest on 



THAT auspicious OCCASION? 



Cordially, 



Henry L. Parker, 

 Stephen Salisbury, 

 Edward Winslow Lincoln, 



Committee on Invitation. 



N. B. Please Address answer to 



Edward Winslow Lincoln, Secretary. 



Expressing the regret of the committee, in which you doubt- 

 less share, that so many of those for whose company we were 

 heartily desirous, have been constrained to decline, I will proceed 

 without further preface to tlie discharge of my present duty. 



This Society has always cherished a natural pride in Worcester 

 County, the home of the choicer fruits. Of those that originated 

 here we have a right to boast of the Sterling, Mother, Hubbard- 

 ston Nonsuch, Leicester Sweet, and Sutton Beauty. Also, among 

 the products of our soil, have been Governors, in abundance and 

 variety. While we may not claim the present incumbent of the 

 Chief Executive Office, as a direct offspring from Worcester 

 County, we ncvertlieless insist that His Excellency, a scion from 

 old Princeton stock is a conclusive argument against the degen- 



