68 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1872. 



Edwakd W. Lincoln, Esq., 



My Dear Sir, — In rci:)ly to j'oiu' request for 1113' views upon the modes 

 of 25utting up and delivering fruit, t'Si)ecially the Peach, for this market, 

 I would sa}- that in the 1st place the cars should be constructed for the 

 especial purpose, thus giving the fruit perfect ventilation. 



2d. The fruits should he shipped in (piarter, half and whole barrels, in 

 jireference to boxes. The)- arrive in much better condition in barrels. 

 These should be made with a false head in the center, so as to divide the 

 bulk of fruit into two equal jiortions. The barrels should be perforated 

 with good sized holes: say an inch in diameter. 



3d. The condition of the car must not be overlooked. The fruit is 

 often transported in the same car with horses. Again, it will arrive 

 covered with tar or lime which had probably been in the car before the 

 fi'uit. From this both dealer and consumer have to suffer. 



4th. Delay in transportatioii, caused by insufficiency and poor class of 

 boats, (the route by Long Island Sound being unavoidable,) and the in- 

 adequate supply of cars at the precise occasion of their need. 



Hoping that a change may be effected, and recognizing in your society 

 a i)owerful agency toward this end, 



I remain very truly yours, &c., 



George L. Bliss. 



Mr. Bliss desired that his name should not be used, and will un- 

 dobtedly shrink from this publicity. But the oldest and most expert 

 dealers concur with him in the opinions which he has so well expressed, 

 and the propriety would appear to be slight of withholding from him his 

 just due of recognition. 



It would be a source of profound regret that so few of our community 

 possess even a limited knowledge of Botany. It ought to be a cause for 

 deeper self-reproach when the remedy is within our own hands and we 

 withhold its application. Your Secretary has already advised the pro- 

 curement of a course of lectures from Prof. Asa Gray,— /aciZeprinceps in 

 his chosen science, and as skillful in imparting the rudiments of learning 

 as he is in mastering its higher branches. He might not come were he 

 invited: should he, which one of you would not prefer his lucid 

 and exact instruction to the vapid flapdoodle that has become the custom- 

 ary food of lyceums. 



How much of the love of flowers that yet influences our older fellow 

 citizens, may be traced to the lingering charm of those field excursions 

 and off-hand lectures in the old Town Hall, instigated and made profitable 

 by Emory Washburn, John Milton Earle, Christopher C. Baldwin, and 

 William Lincoln ! Of what infinitely higher aspiration — this "looking from 

 Nature up to Nature's God" — than the incessant thrumming upon soul 

 less wure or disembodied cat-gut to which the majority of our young men 

 and maidens are now addicted. Latterly, it has been considered indis- 



