44 .WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1861. 



sion and prestige, would seem to forbid the professed horticulturist from entering 

 the lists with the farmers, to take from them, as he certainly would, the induce- 

 ments offered by their Society for improving their orchards and their gardens. 



From the above and various other considerations, your Committee are unan- 

 imously and decidedly of the opinion that it would not promote the interest or 

 the welfare of our Society to unite our exhibitions with the Agricultural Society 

 at their Hall. We believe it would be repugnant to the feelings and tastes of 

 most of those who have contributed most constantly and freely to our shows, 

 and of those, also, who have graced them by their presence during our seasons 

 of exhibition, to abandon our own beautiful, and commodious, and easily acces- 

 sible Halls, and transfer our shows to a place wanting in all those facilities and 

 attractions with which we are now so highly favored. It would deprive us of all 

 those social and happy reunions which have been so highly prized, and have 

 never failed to add pleasure to instruction. 



We appeal, therefore, to the members of this Society to maintain the high 

 character it has attained, and trust that no inducement, certainly not the offer 

 of a few more pieces of silver, will cause them to withhold their best contribu- 

 tions from our tables at our Autumnal Exhibitions. The Committee propose 

 to the Trustees the adoption of the following resolution : 



Resolved^ That the Worcester County Horticultural Society continue to hold 

 their Annual Exhibitions, as heretofore, at their own Halls. 



WILLIAM WORKMAN, Chairman. 

 WoRCKSTER, March G, 186L 



The question arising upon the acceptance of this Report, a discussion ensued 

 as to the general policy of the Society, in which Messrs. D. Waldo Lincoln, 

 Francis H. Dewey, 0. B. Hadwen, Benjamin Butman, Samuel H. Colton, Dr. 

 William Workman, Emory Banister and George Jaques (Chairman) partici- 

 pated. Whereafter it was, upon motion of Francis H. Dewey, Esq., unanimoiisly 



Voted, That the Worcester County Horticultural Society continue to hold 

 their Annual Exhibitions, as heretofore, at their own Hall. 



AUTUMNAL EXHIBITION. 



At a Special Meeting of the Trustees, holden August 9th, A. D. 1861, upon 

 motion of Frederick William Paine, Esq., it was unanimously 



Voted, " That, in consequence of the extreme lightness of the crop of Fruit, 

 of every species, it is deemed advisable to discontinue the Annual Autumnal 

 Exhibition already announced. 



