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WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[1867. 



THE WEEKLY EXHIBITIONS. 



The Weekly Exhibitions that were originated at the same time with the re- 

 moval of the Library, have been continued throughout the past year. For six 

 years, in succession, have these displays been held, without a single omission 

 on account of inadvertence or sickness. That they have been productive of 

 benefit to the Society, must be obvious to the most superficial observer. That 

 great good has resulted to the community is evident from personal observation, 

 as well . as from the admissions of those who have been induced to become 

 members. The usual comparative statement of the entries, or number of 

 articles, of each variety exhibited during the past official year, exclusive of 

 the Annual Autumnal Exhibition, is herewith submitted : — 



COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. 



It will be noticed that the total number of entries in 1867, exceeds those of 

 the year previous considerably more than the entries of that year fell short of 

 those in 1865. Weather prophets, or the men who " told you so," may compare 

 analogies, or reason from effect to cause as, by a system of logic somewhat 

 peculiar to our good old Commonwealth, is so often done. But accurate ob- 

 servers, those who keep watch of the Thermometer and are not oblivious that 

 the Rain-fall can be measured, know well that in sudden and extraordinary 

 changes of temperature, in lavish moisture or parching drought, are to be 

 found the inexplicable but adverse conditions that regulate if they do not 

 govern all pomological development. 



The Annual Exhibition of Roses was held under some disadvantages. The 

 continual rains, which were so favorable to the cultivation of the smaller Fruits, 

 were less genial in their influence upon the development of the Queen of 

 Flowers. Nevertheless, there are some whom storms cannot daunt and who 

 regard in that, which to others would present an insuperable obstacle, only an 



