68 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1873. 



While no jirize that we could offer would be an adequate compensa- 

 tion for the cost and trouble involved in the i^rocuring of scions and their 

 subsequent care, it might nevertheless prove an incentive to a broader 

 and more generous culture. Quite a number of Pears, too, of marked 

 promise, and it may almost be said of approved excellence, have been 

 originated, of late years, upon the European Continent and in Great 

 Britain, with which it would be desirable to make a closer aquaintance. 

 The "Beurre de 1' Assomption, ''Souvenir du Congres, and the "Duchesse 

 de Bordeaux are names that occur at this present writing. Then there 

 is the ''Brockworth Park, pronounced •' a splendid pear" by the Garden- 

 er^ s Chronicle. A member of the Committee on Pears,* upon whose gen- 

 erous zeal the Society never counts in vain, and to whose matured judg- 

 ment his colleagues accord proper deference, has collated the subjoined 

 list of such varieties, absolutely or comparatively new, as commend them- 

 selves to him, for trial by our more enterprising Members : 



Doctor Keeder." Doyenne Hovey,'' 



Helene G-regoire,' Souvenir d' Esperen,' 



Huyshe's Prince Consort,^ Belle P^pine Dumas,"" or 



Rutter," Due de Bordeaux, 



St. Crispin,' Gen. Todleben." 

 Emile d' Heyst,^ 



How infinitely better to '' advance the Science of Horticulture " by the 

 al)olition of an utterly meaningless system of classification, and by the 

 substitution therefor of an intelligible and instructive competition be- 

 tween different lots of the same varieties, grown under altered conditions 

 of soil and temperature! Of what vastly augmented usefulness the labors 

 of our Society when it shall concentrate its efforts upon the wider dissem- 

 ination of Pomological knowledge, by the introduction of new and im- 

 proved species, whether imported from Europe, or originated at home, as 

 fondly hoped and predicted by the accomplished President of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society .f In this field corporate bounty may well be 

 applied to stimulate an otherwise dormant energ3^ 



The character of the Autumnal Exhibition, while disclosing no 

 startling features, may be summed up as of general and uniform excel> 

 lence. There were good Apples, more and better than could have been 

 expected. Pears were in superfluity. Peaches are again yielding, on a 

 soil so long fallow; while the clusters of Grapes are as countless as the 

 Rogers numbers. Flowers adorned each nook and corner of the Hall. 

 Nor would an untoward season have been suspected from the abundance 



a, Early August; b, August and September; c, December to February; fl, Octoljor. 

 *>Ir. Henry Phelps. 



e, November; f. October; g, Xovember; h, October and November; i, October; j, November and De- 

 cember; k, October and Novcmlier; 1, October and November; m, November; n, October and early Nov. 

 tnon. Mar«hall P. WiKl.-r. 



