10 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1870 



For the best twelve Mother, Sylvanus Sears, 2 00 



Fot the best twelve Rhode Island Greening, Joseph Boyden 2 00 



For the best twelve Maiden's Blush, Alfred Davis 2 00 



For the best twelve of any other sort (Detroit), Mrs. Wm. Greenleaf. 2 00 



GRATUITIES. 



Class 1, Isaac Mills, gratuity, $3 00 



Class 2, Joel Kuapp, gratuity, 3 00 



Class 3, J. K. L. Pickford, gratuity, 3 00 



Class 3, T. P. Curtis, gratuity 2 00 



Class 4, H. Drury, gratuity 2 00 



S. H. Colton, specimen of Hawley, gratuity 2 00 



S. n. Colton, specimen of Leland's Spice, gratuity, 2 00 



Eli Johnson, specimen of Mother, gratuity 1 00 



Eri Saunders, gratuity 1 00 



E. H. Slocomb, of Grafton, gratuity 1 00 



We have been unanimous in the award of premiums and congratulate the 

 society upon the generous contribution, which has been made this year in this 

 kind of fruit. There were 55 contributors and 631 plates ; an excess over last 

 year's contributors of 12, and in the number of plates, of 347. 



The unparalleled dry summer has proved more favorable to the apple crop 

 than could have been anticipated. The selected specimens were very fair in 

 form, beautiful in color and delicious in flavor. Larger apples have been here- 

 tofore exhibited, but probably no exhibition has been more satisfactory to visi- 

 tors than the present one. Perhaps the ample room and arrangement of the 

 tables have afforded visitors a better opportunity for examination and the com- 

 mittee have been pleased with the universal satisfaction, which has been ex- 

 pressed at this display of fruit. 



The "wheel of time" has turned again in apple bearing, and cultivators have 

 reason to hope, that for some future years this fruit may be produced in equal 

 abundance. Neither the poor or rich will have reason to complain of scarcity 

 or price. The Apple trees seem to have had a "strike" but only to produce 

 more instead of less. Cultivators may complain of the market price of 15 to 

 50 cents per bushel, and it is pretty evident that "apple sauce" will receive 

 such a shaking, as will diminish materially the receipts of our Shaker friends 

 for this year. 



We advise all producers to turn their attention to raising only trees which 

 shall bear the fairest and choicest varieties for the table. Such apples will 

 always find a ready sale and be more profitable than those which produce 

 "a little more cider too." 



E. B. STODDARD, Chairman. 



