PREFACE. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 holden on Wednesday, the fourth day of November, A. D., 1868, on 

 motion of Hon. John Milton Earle, it was unanimously voted : — 



"That the Transactions of the Society, comprising the Address of the Presi- 

 dent and the Reports of the several Committees at the Annual Autumnal 

 Exhibition, with the Report of the Secretary and Librarian, just delivered, be 

 printed for the use of Members, under the supervision of the Standing Com- 

 mittee on Publication." 



Attest : 



EDWARD W. LINCOLN, 



Secretary. 

 Horticultural Hall, 

 Worcester, Mass., January, A. D., 1869. 



