10 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1868. 



For the best sis varieties of twelve specimens each, in the 4th class, 



John C. Ripley, $4 00 



For the second best, James Draper, 2 00 



For the best eight Gravenstein, Alden H. Sears, 1 00 



For the best eight Porter, Eri Sanders, 1 00 



For the best eight Hubbardston Nonsuch, Charles Nash, 1 00 



For the best eight Northern Spy, E. F. Champney, of Saundersville, 1 00 



For the best eight Baldwin, Parley Holman, of Leicester, 1 00 



For the best eight Mother, D. B. Comins, 1 00 



For the best eight R. L Greening, no award 



For the best eight of any other sort, S. H. Colton, for the Hawley Apple, 1 00 

 It should be borne in mind that in some instances where premiums have 

 been awarded to single varieties, there may have been better plates of the 

 same varieties in larger collections to which premiums are awarded, but under 

 the rules of the Society these specimens could not be credited with a second 

 premium. 



GRATUITIES. 



Samuel Ellsworth, thirty-nine varieties, Gratuity, $2 00 



Mrs. Geo, A. Chamberlain, eleven varieties, Gratuity, 2 00 



We have collections, other than those, for which premiums have been 

 awarded, of a considerable number of varieties respectively, and of various 

 degrees of merit, and some of the contributions that were smallest in number 

 were of superior excellence ; but the Committee thought it not necessary to in- 

 clude the entire list of names in the report. 



In Mrs. C. W. Hamilton's collection of twenty-five varieties, there is a Rus- 

 sian apple named TetotFsky, remarkable for its beauty, and believed to be of 

 superior merit as an early dessert apple, though it was doubted by one or two 

 experienced members of the Committee whether this apple is rightly named. 



EDWIN CONANT, 



Chairman, for the Committee. 



REPORT ON GRAPES, PEACHES AND QUINCES. 



RuFUS Woodward, Chairman; B. Butman, D. Waldo Lincoln, John C. 

 Ripley, Francis H. Devvet, Horatio Phelps, of Worcester ; Paul Whitin, 

 of Whitinsville, and F. M. Marble, of Grafton. 



The Committee on Grapes, Peaches, Plums and Quinces, having attended to 

 their duty, beg leave to offer the following Report : 



GRAPES. 

 For best collection, grown under glass, P. L. Moen, the Society's plate, 



valued at $10 00 



