8 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [18G8. 



Peaches even, the product of your patient toil and watchful care, your sen- 

 timent will have received a terrible shock ; and before you are aware of it, 

 you will have committed it to other hands for safe-keeping. Nay, more ; your 

 consideration of these matters will gradually assume a practical turn, and you 

 will not be long in coming to the conclusion, that the aggregate wisdom of 

 your legislators can be more profitably employed than in enacting laws for the 

 protection of the feathered race. 



