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WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[1869. 



upon his personal experience, commencing with the Red and Yellow Antwerps 

 some forty years ago, and protracted, with intermissions, down to the present 

 prolific season. Aware that others are of a different persuasion he submits his 

 convictions, for such they are, to be taken for what they are worth. One thing 

 more ; a writer in the Daily Spy not many weeks since, in an article upon the 

 culture of the raspberry, advises the making of plantations in the spring as the 

 only suitable season. Your Secretary would assert, on the other hand, that no 

 period of the year is so .suitable as the autumn. And he does so with the more 

 confidence that it is a theory to which his own practice has always conformed, 

 and which results have never failed to justify. 



The customary comparative statement of entries at the exhibitions, other than 

 the annual autumnal, is herewith furnished for your more precise information : 



An aggregate augmented by the unprecedented display of strawberries in 

 early summer, and the generous profusion of grapes within the past few weeks. 



At a special meeting of the society convened on the 24th day of September 

 ult., a committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Samuel H. Colton, 

 Stephen Salisbury and John C. Newton, to " submit at the next meeting 

 some suitable plan of alteration or enlargement of Horticultural Hall, that the 

 same may be rendered more convenient and capacious for the purposes of the 

 Society." To what conclusion that committee have arrived has not been pub- 

 licly announced ; nor is a knowledge of it material to the purposes of this 

 report. The inciting cause for the creation of this committee is, of course, well 

 understood. At the annual autumnal exhibition a display of vegetables rewarded 

 our efforts that might well have challenged the assignment of the main hall for 

 their exclusive exposition. As it was, much of their effect as a collection was 

 lost by sheer inability to arrange and properly classify them. The Society, it 

 cannot be denied, has uo right to hold out inducements for cultivators to exhibit 



