12 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1870. 



disqualify them for voting for, though they might be candidates on, a prohibi- 

 tory ticket. 



It certainly is true that the ideal of Gonzalo's Commonwealth in Shakespeare's 

 "Tempest," has not yet been realized ; for he would execute all things by 

 contraries ; admit no kind of traffic, no name of magistrate, letters should not 

 be known ; riches, poverty, and use of service none ; contract, inheritance, 

 boundaries of land, cultivation, vineyards, none ; no use of metal, corn, or 

 wine, or oil; no occupation; all men idle — -all; and women too; no sover- 

 eignty, and yet he would be king on't. 



The latter end of his Commonwealth forgot its beginning, as often happens 

 to the " schemes of mice and men.'" 



■Grapes are sour to those who cannot get them. This Committee has not 

 been troubled much in that way. We think that by the fable of the fox and 

 grapes, it was intended to allegorise the feelings of disappointed aspirants to 

 offices for which they were not fit. 



The grape most afi'ected by Captain Bragg, which, fairly administered, would 

 cure the case of disloyal demagogues, was of a different character, hard, if not 

 sour, apt pitifully to waste the claret of an armed enemy, and to cause jovial 

 triumph on the other side, when its sale and use was not limited to any canis- 

 ters of original importation. 



Of grapes the Committee found twenty-six contributors of one hundred and 

 seventy five parcels of fruit ; and are happy to say that they found a manifest 

 improvement upon the exhibition of last year, especially in the increased num- 

 ber and merit of out-door varieties, and the comparative absence of worthless 

 and unimproved natives. They award : 



For the best collection, grown under glass, fourteen varieties, Philip L. 



Moen $12 00 



For the second best, eleven varieties, Stephen Salisbury 10 00 



For the best two clusters of Black Hamburg, Philip L. Moen 2 00 



For the second best, F. M. Marble, of Grafton 1 00 



For the best two clusters of any other black grape, Philip L. Moen 



(Wilmot's Hamburg) 2 00 



B'or the best two clusters of any White Muscat (Muscat of Alexandria) 



Philip L. Moen 2 00 



For the best two clusters of any other variety of white (White Syrian) 



Philip L. Moen 2 00 



For the second best (White Frontignan) F. M. Marble, of Grafton 1 00 



For the best collection of out-door grapes, not less than six varieties, 



thirty varieties, Joseph C. Lovell, of West Boylston 8 00 



For the second best, fourteen varieties, Frank J. Kinney 5 00 



For the third best, D. S. Goddard 3 00 



For the best specimens of four bunches of Delaware, Fra.nk J. I^inney 3 00 



