96 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1864. 



Charles Hadwen, Jr., of Woi'cester, exhibited thirty varieties, and 

 the Committee award to him the second special premium for boys 

 not over sixteen years of age, 2 00 



Emory A. Ellsworth, of Barre, a lad of twelve years, exhibited thirty-seven 

 varieties of Vegetables, all raised by himself, excepting four varieties which 

 he helped to cultivate. He was too late for a premium to boys not over sixteen 

 years of age, but the Committee assign to him a gratuity of $1.00. 



To 1). D. Works, of Fitchburg, we reconnnend for his excellent Pumpkins, 

 Corn and Turnips, a gratuity of $2.00. 



Our President, J. Henry Hill, produced a Squash which was one of those 

 exhibited by him last year with undoubted Canada Crook-necks, but of the 

 purity of this specimen the Committee of that year were not certain, and by 

 that chance Mr. Hill failed to obtain the premium. The majority of last years' 

 Committee are on this year's Committee, and now the ghost of that Squash 

 appears to them ; whether to rebuke them for error, they don't know ; but 

 from its shadowy outlines and semblance, they think they were safe last year in 

 calling it a Squash. And they think themselves fortunate that they didn't see 

 the shades of Mr. Lovell's Corn and Mr. Grout's Tomatoes. Mr. Hill's 

 Squash, by its inscription, asserts itself to be still incarnate. But it has taken 

 a fainter and more shadowy complexion, and the Committee have no idea of 

 being responsible for it in the flesh. 



This report would be too protracted if the Committee should mention by 

 name every variety of Vegetable and Plant brought to their official notice. 



Edward W. Lincoln, our Secretary, exhibited four Yokohama Squashes ; C. 

 E. Thurston, of Grafton, nine varieties of Vegetables ; Isaac Mills, of Wor- 

 cester, three Yokohamas ; Luther Ross, of Worcester, some varieties, includ- 

 ing Sweet Potatoes, raised here, and of very fair appearance ; Freddie E. 

 Kelley, of Millbury, eleven years old, eleven varieties, and parcels smaller in 

 variety were produced by Edwin Draper and William G. Moore, of Worcester ; 

 Newell Wood, of Millbury ; Gideon Harris, Thomas H. Rice, Alfred Harris, 

 Charles B. Robbins, Sumner Cook, Charles Richardson, Calvin L. Hartshorn, 

 Hiram Bassett, T. R. Norcross, H. H. Ames, J. Henry Hill, James P. Paine, 

 John O'Keefe, and Isaac Davis, all of Worcester ; Harvey Dodge, of Sutton ; 

 and S. C. Hartwell, of Southbridge. Mr. C. L, Hartshorn's seedless Toma- 

 toes would have come in close competition with those which received the pre- 

 mium had the number been sufficient, and deserve honorable mention. 



The character and quality of the articles exhibited in the Vegetable depart- 

 ment of the Society's operations, are believed to fully equal in their excellence, 

 if they do not surpass those of any previous year. 



On Thursday morning, Daniel Taiuter, of Worcester, introduced some 

 remarkably fine Watermelons and Muskmelons, which, considering the infre- 

 quency of success in raising those esculents here in perfection, are worthy of 

 admiration. The Watermelons, especially, are superior specimens. 



On the same morning, Samuel Morey, of Shrewsbury, brought to us a splen- 

 did Mammoth Squash, weighing ninety pounds. By the strictness of our rules 



