10 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1847. 



the Exhibition was open to the public only one day and two evenings, yet 

 nearly three thousand persons visited it, — evincing pretty conclusive evidence 

 of the interest our community feel in the subject. 



Notwithstanding the hall was constantly thronged with visitors, and many 

 hundreds of samples of beautiful and tempting fruit within reach of every one, 

 yet all seemed to feel and act as if it was placed there to be examined with the 

 eye only. No instance of jjilfering, and but little unnecessary handling of the 

 fruit, was known to occur. The Committee think it speaks well for our com- 

 munity, and they take pleasure in making this statement, — being so widely 

 different from the custom in some places, where the fruit has to be put beyond 

 reach to ensure its safety from being purloined. But, fearful of prolonging our 

 desultory remarks to an unreasonable length, we proceed to give 



A LIST OP FRUITS EXHIBITED.* 



Edward Earle, — Pears : Bartlett, Duchess d'Angouleme, Seckel, St. Mi- 

 chael, St. Ghislain, Sieulle, Bleecker's Meadow ; Native Grapes of good quality 

 and very early. 



George W. Dresser, — Orange Pears. 



D. S. Messinger, — Pears : Bartlett, Rushmore's Bon Chretien, and one 

 variety unnamed ; Apples : Porter, R. I. Greening, Roxbury Russett, Friar, 

 Baldwin ; Peaches : Brevoort's Morris, Red-Cheek Melocoton . 



S. H. CoLTON, "Worcester Nursery, — Pears : Beurre Diel, Bezi de la Motte, 

 Josephine, Belle Lucrative, Seckel, Hericart, Washington, St. Ghislain, Lewis, 

 St. Michael, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Napoleon, Beurre d'Aremberg, Henry 

 IVth, Beurre Bosc, Flemish Beauty, Marie Louise, Andrews, Autumn Berga- 

 motte. Passe Colmar, Beurre de Capiaumont, Buffum, Bartlett, Frederick de 

 Wurtemberg, Bon Chretien Fondante, and one variety unnamed ; Apples : Fam- 

 euse. Striped Bellfiower, Baldwin, Holden Pippin, Charlowminski, Red Cheek, 

 Fall Harvey, Sprague, Peck's Pleasant, Gravenstein, Honey Greening, Russet 

 Pearmain, Golden Russet, Danvers Winter Sweeting, Roxbury Russet, Rhode 

 Island Greening, Nonsuch, French Nonpareil, Pomme Royal, Hubbardston 

 Nonsuch, TifFt Sweeting, Lyscom, Porter, Tallman Sweeting, four varieties of 

 Crab Apples, and one variety unnamed ; Plums : Victoria, Imperial Gage, 

 Lombard, Purple Gage, Golden Drop, Brevoort's Purple, Petite Mirabelle ; 

 Peaches : Bellegrade, Snow, Red Rareripe, Red Cheeked Melocoton, Brainard's 

 Yellow, Old Mixon Freestone, Yellow Rareripe, Crawford's Early Melocoton, 

 Yellow Red Rareripe, Blood, Large Yellow Rareripe, Malta, George IVth, 

 Nivette, and two unnamed varieties ; Grapes : Isabella, Fitchburg, Native 

 White ; also Boston Nectarines. 



Rev. J. Jennings, — Peaches : Early and Late Crawford, Cooledge's Favorite, 

 and three varieties unnamed. 



Dr. 0. H. Blood, — Pears: Bartlett, Flemish Beauty; Peaches: Crawford's 

 Early Melocoton, and three unnamed kinds. 



William C. Capron, Uxbridge, — Apples : Porter, Red Sapson, Episcopal, 



* The place of residence of those exhibitors who live in Worcester is omitted. 



