24 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1885. 



our Roll among our earliest associates, in alphabetical order next 

 after Daniel Waldo and Ichabod Washburn ; and from that 

 date, until increasing age admonished his retirement, he could 

 ever be depended upon at our councils or Committees. He was 

 Vice-President from A. D. 184:4:, to 1853, and again for the 

 year 1857, in that whole time, according to the record, being 

 remarkable for punctual and assiduous attendance. Thereafter, 

 he was continued upon your Board of Trustees so long as he was 

 willing or could be induced to serve ; and in that, as in every 

 other function to which he could be persuaded, through life, his 

 judgment was always conscientious and sound. The writer 

 remembers that, long after Dr. Workman had been settled in 

 Worcester, it used to be said of him that he was too modest to 

 be successful. Fault, — or Virtue, — it signally characterized our 

 late friend. He lived to behold his chosen profession com- 

 paratively freed from it ; and to find it, in smooth, unblushing 

 cheek, as it were accepting a new religio medici. 



Dr. Workman was a rare adviser and, among our Trustees as 

 elsewhere, was rarely thrown off his balance. At that time* 

 when it was realized (it has been more than suspected since !) 

 that two simultaneous Exhibitions of Horticultural products 

 were one too many ; he was Chairman of your Committee f to 

 consider and decide what might be done to avert a clash. The 

 conclusions submitted by him, from the Committee, as their 

 ** uuHuimous lltjport," were so decisive in the premises ; so 

 commended themselves to contemporary approval ; and withal 

 are rendered so pertinent at the present time by a renewal of 

 the effort to serve two masters ! that its reproduction suggests 

 itself, as well in memoriam, as that it now becomes a monition 

 from the grave : 



" At the Annual Meeting of the Worcester County Horticultural 

 Society, holden in Januaiy last, a Committee was appointed to meet a 

 Committee of the Agricultural Society for the purpose of considering 

 a proposition made by that Society, for a Union Exhibition of the two 

 Societies, and said Committee were instructed to report to the 

 Trustees of our Society. 



* A. D. 1861. 



t The Committee consisted of William Workman, 0. B. Hadwen and 

 George Jaques. 



