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WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIKIY. 



[1872. 



misfortune should befall the Worcester County Society, from any negli- 

 gence of his own, your Secretary, upon lesuming his otficc, was careful 

 to supply the Department of Agriculture with all required intelligence- 

 The oblation must have been sufficient ; for the supply of the Monthly 

 Reports of the Department has never intermitted. That you may the 

 more fully appreciate their inestimable value, just mark the following de- 

 tail in the issue for Kovember and December, of the last year: 



" Suffolk County, Mass., Apjile-crop a Failure."' 



And still, with the characteristic fatuity of the average Yankee, the 

 farmers of Pearl or State Streets will contiuue to cling to their barren 

 Orchards! What has become of the Boston Board of Trade V 



The Annual Autumnal Exhibition, holden for the third year in suc- 

 cession away from the Hall of the Society, more than justified tbe bright- 

 est anticipations of its managers. The pecuniary returns, it is true, were 

 less than could have been wished. But the regulation of the weather is 

 without the province of the Society; and if the sample which he furnished 

 upon the 17th and 18th of September, ult, is a fair specimen of what he 

 can do in that line, it is also beyond the capacity of the gentleman at 

 Washington who so lately assumed its control I^evertheless, the re- 

 ceipts more than equalled the expenses, — an unexpected fortune that 

 definitively settles the future location of our Annual Autunmal Exhi- 

 bitions. 



The customary tabular statement of entries for the past official year, 

 and also of the two preceding years during which our Annual Autunmal 

 Exhibitions were held at Mechanics Hall, is herewith submitted :— 



1870. 



j Con- 

 itributors 



I 



I 



I 



Apples ' 55 



Grapes, &c., &c 4G 



Pears 77 



Plants, Flowers, &c 32 



Vegetables 33 



24-J 



Articles. 



632 



3'J2 



1346 



1235 



836 



4441 



1871. 



Con- 

 tributors 



20 



44 



111 



46 



33 



Articles. 



444 



642 



2600 



2006 



1401 



254 709£ 



1872. 



Con- i 

 tributorsj 



64 

 35 

 70 

 56 

 17 



242 



Articles 



1201 



401 



1971 



2455 



I7r)8 



786 



