42 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1861. 



A. 1). 1861, 



MERGER OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL 



EXHIBITIONS. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Society, on the 2d of January, 1861, it was 



Voted, That a Committee of three (3) be chosen, by nomination, to confer 

 with the Worcester County Agricultural Society, upon the matter of a joint 

 exhibition of the two Societies, with instructions to report at the next meeting 

 of the Trustees. 



And Messrs. "William Workman, 0. B. Hadwen and George Jaques were 

 nominated and confirmed such Committee. 



And subsequently, to wit : at a meeting of the Trustees, holden on Wednes- 

 day, the 6th of March, Dr. Workman submitted the following unanimous Re- 

 port, from the Committee of which he was Chairman : 



REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES. ' 



At the Annual Meeting of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 holden in January last, a Committee was appointed to meet a Committee of 

 the Agricultural Society for the purpose of considering a proposition made by 

 that Society, for a Union Exhibition of the two Societies, and said Committee 

 were instructed to report to the Trustees of our Society. 



Your Committee have attended to the duty assigned, and submit the follow- 

 ing as their Report : 



The Committee of the Agricultural Society stated that the interest in the 

 show of Fruits and Vegetables had very much declined in their Society since the 

 organization of our Society, and for the purpose of reviving that interest and 

 of rendering their shows more attractive, they invited us to unite our exhibi- 

 bitions with theirs, to hold them at their Hall and under their auspices. 



They manifested their purpose, if we should decline the proposed union, to 

 offer generous premiums for the exhibition of Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables, 

 and intimated their fears that such competition might be injurious to the wel- 

 fare of our Society. 



We freely and frankly conceded to them a perfect right to offer any encour- 

 agement to increase the interest of their shows which their wisdom might dic- 

 tate, and at the same time expressed our conviction that no injury would result 

 to our Society from the threatened competition ; but, on the contrary, we were 

 persuaded that it would operate rather as a salutary stimulus to our members 

 to make greater exertions to improve the excellence of our own shows. Why 

 should we fear the competition ? 



