The Museum and Natural History Society, in Foregate Street, to which
visitors are admitted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, {6} with its
collection of antiquities, fossils, and objects of natural history,
should be visited. Also, the Arboretum and Public Pleasure Grounds, near
Sansome Walk, where fetes are given and bands frequently play. The
grounds are tastefully laid out, portions being set apart for games of
archery, cricket, bowls, and quoits. The usual admission fee is
sixpence, but on Mondays they are free to the inhabitants.

In describing Worcester it would be unpardonable not to allude to its
hops, from 2,000 to 3,000 pockets of which, it is said, not unfrequently
change hands, in the market in the Foregate, during the season.

Glove making also is still one of the staple trades, nearly half a
million being annually manufactured by Messrs. Dent and others.

Worcester is celebrated for Porcelain of a very superior kind; and
facilities are afforded to strangers visiting the manufactory, both in
Diglis, and in Lowesmoor. The productions of the former are highly
esteemed by connoisseurs. The works have the good fortune to receive
distinguished and even royal patronage; and the show-rooms form one of
the attractions of the city.

The Iron trade, so far as regards the manufacture of bridges, machinery,
and general castings, notwithstanding the distance from the iron making
districts, is well represented by the Vulcan Works, and those of Messrs.
Padmore and Hardy. Other establishments on a large scale have sprung
into existence in the city and its suburbs, in which chemistry and
machinery, singly or combined, produce results the most astounding. Among
them are those of Hill, Evans, and Co., where the visitor wanders amidst