28 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1894. 



question with us would seem to be, — Have we not already lost 

 assurance of the Greening in its pristine perfection, and is 

 there permanent redemption for the Baldwin from manifest 

 degeneration and intermittent fruition? Yet, hark! was not 

 that a voice from Mountain Street, intoning in low, harmonious 

 bass, — eyes have you, oh Secretary 1 and seeing, cannot be- 

 hold, those Thirty-Four (34) superb dozen of Greenings, on 

 the 18th of October, ulto. ; or, a week later, that equal, un- 

 paralleled display of Baldwin ! Precisely ! and because of 

 those wonderful exceptions to a mediocrity almost invariable do 

 I urge my contention. Can you tell, oh self-satisfied Granger! 

 why those Apples were borne, in this especial year, of such sur- 

 passing excellence and beauty? Did you contribute aught to 

 it, whether by bounty of manure, by reduction of excessive 

 fecundity, by doing anything, in short, that may fairly be 

 claimed to have brought a blush to their cheeks or augmented 

 their soil and substance ? Can you feel confident that you will 

 ever look upon their like again, except as I before hinted, under 

 the fotuous conceit that the Lord will provide! Has He not 

 just shown you what may be, to profit by the lesson and thus 

 ensure that it shall be? Would not all buyers like to obtain 

 such fruit, instead of the inferior or defective specimens usually 

 found on sale ; or, as throughout the last year, none at all. 

 Vegetables, within the observation of the writer, have so im- 

 proved ; skill in their cultivation has so highly developed ; that 

 it would almost seem as if further advance were beyond attain- 

 ment. Does any one labor more diligently than the market- 

 gardener, or show better returns for his toil expended ! Does 

 any one work less assiduously than the average orchardist, who 

 resrards suckers as inevitable thieves : who has known the cater- 

 pillar from boyhood and has come to look upon him as a mem- 

 ber of his household ; and who will be sure to flatter himself, 

 }>ecause of what he has seen in this Hall, on the 18th and 25th 

 of October, ult., that his cellar will be filled to repletion if only 

 he has a ladder and can get enough barrels. Only, why go to 

 the troul)lc of climbing a ladder when, to him who waits, will 

 come windfalls ! 



