Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-11-24
[PRICE ONE CENT.
}l)orfester DniIo 5pn.
horticultural society.


The exhibition this year greatly surpassed all.pre-
vIous exhibitions, in the variety. extent, and perec-
ton Gifts pears The fruit of some ofthe contrib
utors, It IS true, not good as their contribu-
tons te former exhibitions ,on account Of the drought
ofthe past season. Yet, this deficiency was more
than made up by the fairness and perfection Of the
fruit Of other contributors, whose trees, owing to 10
cations and soils, fitted to withstand severe drought
and long continued hot and dry atmosphere, did
not suffer SO much.
The exhibition shows what has been accom-.
pllshed, within very few years, through the agen-
cy and influence OF the Society," and it Hmst have
gwen much sal faction and pleasure 10 those who
projec ed aud who, with much effort and labor, got
up the first exhibitions Still rood and satis(aclo.
ry as has been the exhibition, this wear, il falls Ear
behind it is believed, what the exhibitions will be-,
! when the trees Of many OF the new contributors
shall be grown and matwed. to good bearing con-
duon, and when the cultivation of all shall be high.
er and more thorough, in all that pertains 10 enrich
ing he soil with suitable manures, and in early re-
heving the trees Of some Of the varieties Of their
! superabundance of fruit, by judicIous thinning
| out.
| As an article Of utility, The pear cannot compare
| with the apple. But, article of luxury, the
| better Kinds are among the moUt del cious fruits
grown out the tropics, and by many preferred
| TO any OF the fruits grown within The tropics. And
! IN common 18th the apple and peach, the higher
| the latitude in which it be grown aud matured
TO Is perfection, the higher and delcuns is its
flavor. And it is believed that there is no latitude
| in which The apple and the pear can be grown, in
greater perfection, than in own. And, by maGv,
the pear can be raised, while The apple cannot In
cities and compact country villages, where men are
limited 10 small space Of ground, the apple, owing
to the wide spreading branches Of the tree, cannot
be conveniently raised while the pear can be- and
DerfecIlOn as is ,oth rho
tree and the fruit is best protected from the injurious
effects of high winds.
In awarding he premiums for The best collections,
the committee adopted, substantially, this rule deen-
ing NJ the proper and reasonable construct ion Of the
phrase, he st collection; the greatest number of
Uareies Of aoeit grocn fruit Of TIE best and most ap.
p,oued kinds.
Under this rule they awarded as follows:
LIST premium to D. w. Lincoln, Of Worcester,
for the best collection IS m
premium Nj Earle OF Worcester for
the 81 best collection. Ann
5ipreminm to Ichabod Washbun, of Worces-
ter, Tor the 81 b. st collection SEQ
4ih premium George T. Rice of Worcester
Tor the 4'h best collection, 200
9th premium TO BENZ +. Thomas of Worcester
Tor the h best collections 100
For singfs dishes Of not less than sir spect-
mans Of 0ne ja0Y7sfy,
=, isS premium TO George I. Rice, tor bis spien-
did 81 Miciaels, an
I'd premium 10 Joseph Lowell, Jr., for his extra
GlouL h.olceaus I'm
Il may be objected to, by some, that premium
was awarded Tor 81. Michaes, inaSmuch, as it may
lead tie Inexperienced attempt the cultivation Of
variety that has, for some wears past SO (tement
~ tailed, in New Eng land; and that the premium
would have been more udiciuusl1 awarded had-ia-
nicuu far hiss Flemish Beauties, OF to Ausiel Lakin
for his Beurre Diel, OF one other Of The con
hibuors OF dishes of fine aad pears, reliable
for their uniform certainty and perfection Of growth,
to be found anon The hnndled varieties, and nearly
eight hundred dishes in the exhibition, by the one
hundred aud tvs nty contributors. But the premium
was 10 be awarded tor 't BEST dish of pears; and
there could be no two opinions, that is, two in.
teihgent opinions, about the ST. Michael's Of Mr..
Rice, being the best dish in the exhib ton their
vers great size and perfection, in all respects con-
sdercd
Whether this favorite, and Justly esteemed, old
variety can hereafter be successfully cultivated in
New England, is not question for the committee to
decide. But the numerous dishes Of good pears of
this variety in the exhibition, from different locaIi-
Ties, prove that It has been successfully cultivated hy
many, this
There will be found in the list OF ears, some put
down, 'snamtIssS." This is to be regretted
But the task OF The committee was not light one
Besides, some OF the committee connected
with another exhibition; and some Of their time
was necessarily occupied there Otherwise. the
committee would have endeavored to make the cat.
aogue Of names complete. Ii is believed, however
that of those who sought to ascertain the yar-
ty Of their fruit, learned it, during the exhibition
from somt one OF the committee, or from some other
source; that this imperection in the report is the
less to be regretted.
The entries Of Pears were as follows:
James LongIey, Boylston-S Michael, fine;
Seckel.
T. II. Rice, Worcester-St. Michael, good; Ma
poleon.
S. P. Champney, Worcester--9 varieties, viz:
St. Michael Beurre d Annals, Louise Bonnie de Jer-
sey, good: Bartlett, Duchess d'Angouleme, Beurre
Diel, Nameless, Glout Moroccan.
P. Holman, Lecester-Barllett, good.
j. NJ. Earle, Worcester-69 varieties; Beurre
Bose, fine; Andrews, Duchess d'Augouleme ST. Mi
chael, good; Marie Louise, Smpasse Vngalieu.
Chaumontelc, Knights Monarch Oswego Beurre,
Belle Lucrative, st. Ghislain, Bezi Montigny,
Winter Nelis, Striped Long Green, Flemish
Beauty, Louise Bonnie de Jersey, Thompson
Henry w, Bufum, Bleekers Meadow, Capiau-
mont, Brown Beurre. Winter Orange, Vicar of
WINFIELD, Rushmore's Bon Chretien Gracioli of
Jersey, Cofins Virgalieu, Swans Orange Para
disc d'Automne, fine, Beurre Del, Hacon's In
Beurre 'Aremberg, Bezi de la Motto,
Pitts Prolific, Doyenne Boussock, Glout Morceau
Dearborn's Seeding, Passans du Portugal, Gus
tines Summer, Beure dAmalis, Belle ct Bonnie,
Passe Colmar Gansels Bergamot. Beurre Esperin,
Colmar d'Aremberg, Golden Beurre Of Bilboa,
Doyenne Goubault, Dix, Lawrence, Madotte. Uiba-
niste, good, Fulton, Heathcot, Wilcomb. Catil-
lac, Bartlett, Josephine, Tyson, Lewis, Secke,
6 nameless.
Emory Banister. Worcester - 8 Uarieties-
Bartlett, Duchess d Angouleme Flemish Beauty.
Louise Bonnie de Jersey, Glout Moroccan, Beurre
d Annals, Beurre Diel, st. Michael, Passe Col
mar-all fine specimens
VIM S. Lincoln, Worcester,-lO uayleties-
Louise Bonnie de Jersey, Josephine, Mops lie
Cure, st. Michael, fine, Easter Beurre, Glout
Morceau, good, Beurre d'Amalis nameless
E. B. Lowell Worcester--Louise Bonnie de Jer-
sey, Dearbcrn's Seeding, nameless.
Joseph Lowell, Jr Worcester-Glout Moroccan.
Ansel Lakin, Worcester-Beurre Diel oood,'
Flemish Beauty, Seckel.
John Field, End, Observation-Disclosures
Geo. r Newton, Worcester lemish Beauty
Z. NJ. Banning, Worcester--Bartlett.
Clarendon Harris, Worcester-10 caYleties---
Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonnie de Jersey, Golden
Beurre, Urbaniste, ST. Michael Duninore, Van
Mons Leon lie Clerc, Brown Beurre, 2 nameless,
lchabod Washburn, Worcester-lS parieties--
Seckel, Bartlett, Louise Bonnie de Jersey, Marie
Louise, Buffum, Bleeker's Meadow. Vicar of
WINFIELD, Glout Moroccan, Beurre niel, Easter
Beurre, Duchess d'Angouleme, Dix, st. Ghislain,
nameless. All very finely grown specimens
A. M. Merrifeld, Observation-Disclosures Bonnie de