WOUCESTER COI NTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A. I). 1884. 



AMUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



To the Memhers of the 



Worcester County Horticultural Society. 



I CAN congratulate yon, with cordial sincerity, upon a year of 

 unparalleled success. The repairs and improvements of your 

 Hall, just completed at the date of the last Annual Meeting, 

 have met with merited appreciation and attracted generous 

 patronage. Some further renovation, — imperatively required to 

 preserve the work already done, — notably a new floor in the Hall 

 of Ceres, — has been directed by tJie Finance Committee and is 

 finished to their satisfaction. An unknown and radical defect in 

 the sewerage of the building was detected, by the merest chance, 

 and at once remedied in the most thorough manner, as was alike 

 the interest of your tenants and of the Society itself. Every 

 expense has been met from accruing revenue ; and, what could 

 not even be attempted A. D., 1883, there is also an important 

 reduction in the sum of the corporate indebtedness. Thanks are 

 due to our Janitor, whose assiduity has closely guarded our 

 property from harm by the elements ; and whose unwearied 

 industry has met all the demands of a constant and exacting- 

 custom. Only those who have had occasion to be up night after 

 night, — like those owners of Jerseys who, aware of the miraculous 



