Download or read book Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, for the Year 1870 written by Edward W. Lincoln and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, for the Year 1870: Comprising, the Address of the President; The Reports of the Committees of the Society; And the Annual Report of the Secretary and Librarian for the Year 1870 It is always pleasant to speak of our pecuniary condition, whenever we are strong in our own resources, and with a reasonable certainty as to the future this is your position today. Our valuable real estate on Front street gives us an annual income of $3500, after making the necessary reservation of Horticultural Hall and its ante-rooms when required by ourselves. Our whole indebtedness does not exceed $1200, which will undoubtedly be paid during the next year, without affecting our ability to expend increased premiums and make any other desirable improve ments. The question of the sale by the Society ofits real estate has been sometimes agitated, with a view either to erect another building upon some other location or to make a different investment of the funds of the Society. But the opinion of the committee appointed to consider this matter was that the best interests of the Society would be promoted by retaining the present property, and it seems to me very clear that no better investment could be made of the funds of the Society; that our own hall and rooms are abundantly sufficient for all ordinary exhibitions and purposes, that the only occasion that we have for a larger hall is for this one annual autumnal exhibition for which we can amply provide by hiring Mechanics Hall, a course I deem far preferable to that of investing our money in the erecting of a new building, embarrassing our future opera tions, and depriving us Of the large income that we can now appropriate to the encouragement of the legitimate objects of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.