54 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [18G2. 



REPORT ON VEGETABLES. 



Stephen Salisbx^ry, Chairman ; Aloxzo Hill, Hexky R. Keith, Joseph 

 BoYDEx, 0. B. Hadwex. 



The Committee respectAill}- report : 



The Society, not less than this Committee, will notice with regret the absence 

 from the service of this Committee of the distinguished cultivator originally 

 designated as the Chairman. John C. Jaques deserves the respectful remem- 

 brance of the Society as an active and judicious promoter of its objects. 

 Though he shrank from public observation, and was averse to personal display, 

 he was known by all his associates as a careful observer, an independent thinker 

 and a useful man. It is sad to consider that this fruitful life was removed at 

 its maturity, just at the period when it had blossomed to brighter hopes and 

 higher satisfactions. 



The department of Culinary Vegetables is very small, and as a whole, it is 

 not of a superior character. Your Committee can suggest no sufficient reason 

 for this deficiency, at a time when the necessity of enlarging the production of 

 articles of food most important to health and vigor, must be apparent to every 

 man who loves his country or himself. 



The number of contributors is 12, of specimens 122. In last year's exhibi- 

 tion the contributors were 27, the specimens 22G. The premium of $10.00 is 

 awarded to Mr. S. P. Champney, of Grafton, for the largest and best collection 

 of Vegetables. This contains forty-eight articles, among which most excellent 

 specimens of Hubbard Squash were highly praised. Mr. Champney also 

 exhibited specimens of agricultural Grains, and of tall and perfect plants of 

 Grasses, which were worthy of attention. 



To Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, is awarded the premium of $8.00 for the 

 second best collection of Vegetables, containing twenty-nine varieties. Jn this 

 was a fine specimen of the Winningstadt Cabbage, which is recommended by one 

 of your Committee as the best Cabbage lor eating in an uncooked state, and 

 nearly as good as Celery. His beautiful Onions of some kinds are from a 

 field of three acres. Mr. Dodge states that his average croj^s of Onions for 

 the last ten years has been four hundred and eighty bushels, and his average 

 crop of Cabbages was eight thousand of Oxheart and Winningstadt, and four 

 thousand of Drumhead. 



In the opinion of your Committee, no collection of Vegetables deserved the 

 premiums offered for the third best and fourth best. To E. F. Champney, 

 aged eleven years, of Grafton, is awarded the premium of .$2.00 offered for the 

 largest and best collection of Vegetables, grown exclusively by boys not over 

 fifteen years of age. Master Champney 's collection of twenty-one specimens 

 was good. It is pleasant to see a son following the good works of his father, 

 with so much of taste and skill. It is an example worthy of distinguished 

 notice and more frequent imitation. 



A premium of $2.00 is awarded to George G. Burbank for fine specimens of 

 the Boston Marrow Squash. A premium of $1.00 for the best Winter Squash 



