Excerpt from Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society: Reports of the Officers for the Year Ending November 1, 1903, and Essays for Season of 1904 The weather conditions of the past season have been very unsatisfactory for the growers of fruit, flowers and vegetables. November, 1902, was so warm the growth Of trees and shrubs was soft and unripe and in very poor condition to stand the severe cold weather of December 8, 9 and 10, which was several degrees below zero. This caused in many cases the killing of various shrubs, particularly Privet hedges. The winter opened with very little snow, March being so warm as to cause buds to swell - and in as advanced a state as they should be in April in fact April and March exchanged places. Strawberries couldn't be kept back by covering as they pushed up through the mulching; then the cold storms and frost killed the first bloom. Later they bid fair to have a crop, when the drouth struck them and nearly dried them up. Then the cold rain came and rotted them on the vines, after which we had pleasant weather for a few days. Saturday I visited one Of our large growers and looking over his beds we estimated he would pick the first of the week, at least one hundred and sixty crates. Sunday and Monday were so hot the upper side of the berries were scalded so that he picked less than ten crates. 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.