12 WOBCESTEE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1884. 



barrel of 3 bushels. New York Apples have chiefly consisted of 

 Newton Pippins, of which however but few good samples have 

 reached the market this year. When really good, they fetch from 

 30 s. to 60 s. per barrel of 2^ bushels ; other sorts, such as Northern 

 Spy, Seek-No-Further, &c., &c., making from 20 s. to 25 s. per barrel 

 of 2^ bushels." 



Only, — if you get that foreign market, because they have not 

 enough fruit of their own, — strive to retain and secure it by the 

 scrupulous honesty of your subsequent dealings! Shun the 

 <3eacon and his pomological ways ! Let not appearances deceive, 

 but be careful that the extremes of a barrel meet, in like quality, 

 at the middle. An orchardist in Worcester may just as well 

 build up a reputation in England, and establish a character for 

 his especial brand of fruit, as a manufacturer or machinist — his 

 townsmen — for the products of their skill. All depends upon 

 the individual. For, when he has confirmed a name for integ- 

 rity, he will simply decline to forfeit it by the shipment, — it 

 matters not what the inducement, — of an inferior article. When 

 his fruit is inferior — he will keep it at home. That is simple 

 -enough, and will always suffice to distinguish the swindler at 

 heart from a man who is honest through and through. 



We hear, very often, of the good old times whose antiquity is 

 supposed to lend them a flavor that was not even suspected by 

 the generation that endured them. Does 



" distance lend enchantment to the view?" 



Or has memory failed to retain all trace of the disappointment 

 and failures that then, as now, attended the best endeavors ? 

 Certain is it, that never within the Forty-Two years throughout 

 which this Society has existed, was fruit larger or more perfectly 

 developed than during the season just closed. Wo are told that 

 figures will lie and also that they may be made to prove anything. 

 "Well, — the figures are, that A. D., 1859, the largest Beurri 

 Bosc on exhibition weighed eight (8) ounces. It was accounted 

 a great gain, the next year (I860,) because a single specimen 

 weighed nine and one-half (9^) ounces. At the utmost, a dozen 

 would have been credited with one hundred and fourteen (114) 

 ounces. But A. D., 1884, after the lapse of twenty-four (24) 

 years, twelve specimens of that suj^erb variety, from one con- 



