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of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, from 1852, to 1882, 

 except 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880, and, if there are any spare numbers 

 of those years, I would be very thankful to receive them. 



Very respectfully, 



Chas. Downing." 

 Again : 



''Neiohurg, JV. Y., Jan. 29, '84. 

 Edward W. Lincoln, Esq. : 



Dear Sir. — 



Please accept ray cordial thanks for the Transactions of the Worces- 

 ter County Horticultural Society for the year 1883. I have been 

 very much interested and instructed in reading the report, and wish all 

 the Pomologists and fruit-groweis in the country would read it. 



I am pleased with Appendix ' B ' — Exempted property. Why 

 should it be exempted when the poor man or woman who owns a 

 small house worth $800 or $500 is taxed the full amount or nearly so! 

 When a rich church goes free, of course the tax has to be made up 

 by the general tax-payers, rich and poor, which adds to their tax and 

 which robs them of their just rights. All kinds of property should 

 be taxed according to its value ; — then each would pay their just 

 proportion. 



Wishing you good health, a long, useful, and happy life, 



I am very truly yours, 



CuAs. Downing." 



" I am still suffering from the injury I received by the cars in New 

 York City, some fifteen months since. My bruised back is still stiff 

 and painful, so much so that I have but little use of it, and can only 

 walk a few rods at a time." 



His sufferings are at an end. But the monument which he 



builded and, by a pious fraud would have consecrated to the 



memory of his brother, shall endure in his own honor, forever. 



" The sweet remembrance of the just 

 Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust." 



One of our resident Clergy, — of acute perceptive and culti- 

 vated taste, — was moved, not long since, upon the occasion of 

 a funeral service commemorating a National Sorrow, to the 

 following apt deliverance : — 



"Horticultural Hall is swiftly becoming the gallery of the City's 

 honored dead." 



Could the Society be lauded with a higher compliment ? 

 Contemplate the series, imperfect as it is (and, if it must needs 



