62 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1863. 



ness of the Society would be greatly increased, by the acquisition of even a 

 few more good working members from different parts of the County. 



Ladies and gentlemen, I am occupying too much of your time. Believing 

 that rotation in office is conducive to the health and vigor of voluntary associ- 

 ations like this, I shall I'etire at the close of the year, from the position which 

 I have now the honor to hold, as your presiding officer. But I should regard 

 it as a misfortune to lose my interest in the objects to which this Society is 

 devoted, and to the promotion of which I hope to be able to contribute in my 

 humble way, something at least, for many years to come. 



I conclude what I have to say with the simple remark, that some observation 

 of men and things, and twenty years' devotion to horticultural pursuits, have 

 confirmed me in the belief that the cultivation of Fruits and Flowers is among 

 the most fascinating and abiding of human recreations, as the science of hor- 

 ticulture is among the most abstruse that the intellect of man has ever attempted 

 to investigate. 



