36 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1867. 



meuted, by the adoption of some method of publishing to the xcliole community 

 the inducements offered for their co-operation. Whether, in Saxon, that ought 

 to be intelligible to all but a Corporation Treasurer, Jonathan Forbush, or Jona. 

 D. Wheeler, should be exacted to pay freight upon their contributions, gener- 

 ously collated for competition upon terms of equality with the members resident 

 \n\\\Q Shire f Our excentric friends are granted, by their concentric agents, 

 the Trustees, a grace of a few half hours. Would it materially prejudice the 

 best interests of the Society, to allow, in meritorious cases, per diem and mile- 

 age? Your further attention, in connection with the entire subject, is invited 

 to the policy of a longer retention of the rule by which a discount is reserved 

 upon all premiums awarded to persons not " Members of the Society." What- 

 ever its advantages in practice, it is believed to be consistently disregarded. 

 Does it " improve the practice, or promote the knowledge of Horticulture," for 

 this Society to occupy itself in shaving its own promises to pay the modern 

 money f 



The task of finding gentlemen competent and willing to serve upon the Com- 

 mittees of the Society at its Annual Autumnal Exhibition, is becoming, with 

 each successive year, one of increasing and greater difficulty- The labor of a 

 Chairman, especially, of one of these committees, exacts time and involves 

 much annoyance and perplexity. Superadded to these, he supplies in his own 

 person, a most conspicuous target for the shafts of disappointed competitors, 

 who fancy themselves the victims of intentional injustice. Even Horticultural 

 Societies are not exempt from such ill-conditioned creatures. In return for all 

 these discomforts, what do the poor Chairmen get ? Pecuniarily, not one mill. 

 They are required to be content with the self-consciousness of earnest endeavor 

 and good intention ; with the knowledge that their disinterested labors are ap- 

 preciated by the more thoughtful, and finally, that the matured result of their 

 conclusions will find "fit audience, though few," in the published Transactions 

 of the Society. Anything that can be done with propriety, to .induce gentle, 

 men of culture to co-operate in this especial field of usefulness, should be the 

 earnest care of your Trustees. But, after all, your main dependence must be 

 placed upon that generous public spirit, unfailing in the past, and upon which, 



"If Rome hath not lost her breed of noble bloods," 

 you can confidently rely for the future. 



At the late Annual Autumnal Exhibition, two members of the Society delib- 

 erately removed from your tables and stands, in wanton violation of the Rules and 

 in open defiance of the explicit orders of the Chairman of the Committee of Ar. 

 rangements, the articles which they had entered for exhibition and for Premium. 

 Motives of the meanest character, such as pique at the action and ultimate de- 

 termination of your Committee, was the pretence and excuse for this gross im. 

 propriety. Respect for the gentler sex of one of these offenders precludes any 

 mention of the names of either. But, unless expressly instructed to the con- 

 trary, the Committee of Arrangements will feel constrained to protect their au- 

 thority from contempt, by excluding from future competition persons who man- 



