ANNUAL REPORT 



OF 



EDWARD W. LINCOLN, Secretary and Librarian 



OF 



The Worcester County Horticultural Society. 



To the Memhers of the IVorccsler Counft/ Horticultural Socu'tj/ : 



By a singular felicity, during the Thirty-Two Years of its existence, 

 the Worcester County Horflcultural Society has been called to mourn the 

 loss of but two (2) of the ten (10) Presidents, to whose disinterested 

 labor and bright example so much of its past prosperity may be justly 

 attributed. In the recent death of George Jaques a very great misfor- 

 tune has befallen us. Associated with our aims and pursuits from the. 

 hrst, alike from natural inclination and the bent of his cultivated taste, 

 he never swerved from his pomological devotion. By precept and prac- 

 tice ; — through the columns of the newspaper j^ress, as in the pages of 

 the concise, but valuable treatise of which he was the author ; — he 

 labored assiduously to inspire others with a portion, however minute, of 

 his own zeal, — instructing them, at the same time, as to the most probable 

 methods of success. With almost unexampled patience he ransacked 

 the files of ancient journals, to extract therefrom the obsolete Reports of 

 our Committees, the sole record of our development from the feeblest 

 inception ; collating and editing the whole with rare enthusiasm, and 

 thereafter publishing, at his own expense, the ripe fruit of his unselfish 

 toil. How he served you for years in the office of Seci'etary, and subse- 

 <[uently as President, for a term rendered all too short by his own nervous 

 diffidence, it needs not here to detail. Always ready at your behest, his 

 time and facile pen were constantly put in requisition for the incessant 

 and seasonable discharge of the onerous and responsible work of Chair- 



