PREFACE. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 holden on Wednesday, the thirteenth day of November, A. D. 1867, ou 

 motion of Hon. John Milton Earle, it was unanimously voted : — 



"That the Transactions of the Society, comprising the Address of the Vice- 

 President and the Reports of the several Committees at the Annual Autumnal 

 Exhibition, with the Report of the Secretary and Librarian, just delivered, be 

 printed for the use of Members, under the supervision of the Standing Com- 

 mittee on Publication." 



The only essential variation in the form of this volume of transactions, from 

 its predecessors, consists in the omission of the List of Additions to the Library; 

 which, being already stated in the Report of the Librarian, would gain little 

 more publicity from repetition. 



Horticultural Hall, 

 Worcester, Mass., February, A. D. 1868. 



