70 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1892. 



President Parker. — The President of Clark University has 

 done us the honor to become onr guest. I present to you 

 Dr. G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University. 



President G. Stanley Hall of Clark University said he certainly 

 felt it a high honor for one who as yet was almost a stranger 

 within the city's gates to be called on to take an active part 

 in these most interesting proceedings. Although what he did 

 not know about horticulture would make a very large book 

 indeed, still he believed the study of flowers had an elevating 

 and even a religious tendency upon a people. President Hall 

 paid a high tribute to Secretary Lincoln, to whom the city of 

 Worcester is largely indebted for his indefatigable labors as a 

 popular educator in his especial line as a horticulturist. In 

 closing he wished the Society another fifty years of prosperity 

 and growth. (Applause.) 



President Parker. — When a boy at Lawrence Academy, Groton, 

 I used to see a young man of fine military bearing, a member of 

 Gov. Boutwell's stafl:', and whom we boys used to think one of 

 the greatest men in Massachusetts. He has held many honorable 

 positions since that time, and is now President of the New 

 England Agricultural Society, but we have always known him 

 best as Col. Needham. He was Col. Needham then and is 

 Col. Needham now, and Col. Needham has the floor. 



Col. Daniel Needham, president of the New England Agricul- 

 tural Society, said he had been familiar with Worcester for a 

 long time, and he felt proud to do honor to one of Worcester's 

 noblest institutions. This is, indeed, a wonderful city. He 

 recalled the dark days of 1873, when, in his capacity as bank 

 examiner, he travelled throughout the State. He found in that 

 year depression everywhere till he came to AVorcester. Spring- 

 field, Lowell, Lawrence and other towns in the State were all 

 depressed and gloomy, but in Worcester all the manufacturing 

 industries were going on prosperously, and general animation 

 prevailed. He sought a solution for that great difference between 

 Worcester and other industrial centres of the State, and he found 

 it in the diversity of Worcester's industries. The Worcester 

 County Horticultural Society must have been a healthy institu- 



