18 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1866. 



The garden was Almanac and Historical Register to Hostess Quickly, for 

 she had known the fat knight "these twenty-nine years, come peas-cod time." 



The fair Perdita ofiFered marjoram and savory as fit for middle-aged men. 



Justice Shullow was " for all the world like a forked radish with a head 

 fantastically carved upon it with a knife ;" and sweet Anne Page declared to 

 her mother that she " had rather be set quick i' the earth and bowled to death 

 with turnips '' than to marry the French Doctor. 



For the Committee, 



EDWIN CONANT. 

 September 20, 18G6. 



