28 "WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1859. 



For the third best eight do., do., the third premium, to S. P. MiUer, 



((iiout Morceau), 1 00 



The Committee ask leave to make special mention of the i'oHowing contribu- 

 tions to the tables of very superior specimens : B. F. Thomas, the Dix and 

 Bosc; S. H. Colton, the Andrews; 0. B. Hadwen, the St. Michael; Isaac 

 Mills, the Seckel ; Henry Phelps, the St. Michael ; Fitzroy Willard, the Brown 

 Beurre; Stephen S. Foster, the Beurre Clairgeau. 



All which is respectfully submitted, per order of the Committee, 



A. H. BULLOCK, Chairman. 



Worcester, September 29, 1859. 



REPORT ON VEGETABLES. 



Thomas H. Gage, Worcester, Chairman; Horace Leland, Sutton ; 

 Marshall Flagg, Joseph Lovell, Jr., Darius Rice, Worcester. 



Your Committee having attended to the duty assigned them, and having 

 examined thoroughly the specimens on exhibition in the department of Veg- 

 etables, take occasion to congratulate the Society upon the renewed evidence 

 of Horticultural interest and improvement which the present exhibition affords ; 

 nothing unworthy of favorable mention has been offered ; and it has been 

 found no easy task to decide the question of relative merit, where everything 

 has seemed so nearly the " best of its kind." While fewer than usual of what 

 may be called " fancy " products of the garden have been presented, the display 

 of the staple and substantial has been fully equal to that of any previous year. 



No one who has attentively watched from year to year the progressive improve- 

 ment in the culture of vegetables, as evinced by these exhibitions, or the effort 

 made to try, develop, and perfect new varieties, can fail to see how much that is 

 useful is to be attributed to the spirit of emulation and generous rivalry which is 

 stimulated by a judicious distribution of premiums. And yet, we may suggest 

 that it is by no means in this aspect of economy alone that the action of your 

 Society, in awarding its bounty, and encouraging these autumnal fairs, commends 

 itself to our favorable notice ; for incidental to this, and not among the least of 

 its benefits, is the opportunity thus afforded the confined inhabitants of the city 

 to refresh, from time to time, their knowledge of the country, and witness, in 

 their primitive beauty and excellence, the products of the soil. 



To the exliibition of the present year three hundred and eight contributions 

 are made, by thirty-seven different individuals ; and your Committee recom- 

 mend the award of premiums, as follows : 



Vegetables. — For the largest and best collection, to S. P. Champney, 



of Grafton, $6 00 



For next largest and best, to William B. Fox, of Worcester, 5 00 



