542 An Address, delivered before the 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. A71 Address delivered before the Chester County Hor- 

 ticultural Society, at West Chester, Pa., Sept. 10, 1847. 

 By Wm. H. Dillingham. With the Transactions of the So- 

 ciety for the years 1846, 1847. Pamph. 8 vo. pp. 48. 



The Chester County Horticultural Society is a young and 

 flourishing association, and its first two exhibitions have been 

 highly creditable. Many fine kinds of fruits have been exhib- 

 ited at the two annual shows of 1846 and 1847, and liberal 

 premiums awarded. 



We have now before us an address, delivered at the last 

 annual show in September, by Mr. Dillingham, and we ap- 

 propriate a page or two to a few of the most interesting por- 

 tions of the same. 



Mr. Dillingham thus pays a merited tribute to the memory 

 of Penn : — 



The name of the State in which we rejoice, is descriptive of its charac- 

 teristic features to the first settlers. Penn found the country granted to 

 him by his sovereign, a forest, and the designation assigned to it, equally 

 simple and appropriate, means, in plain speech, Penn's woods. It has 

 been our lot to see it, in " bud and blossom like the rose ;" and it is our 

 business here to-day, surrounded by the treasures of Pomona and the splen- 

 dors of Flora, products of the rich inheritance of a happy soil and clime, 

 perpetuated to us by the virtues of our ancestors, while felicitating our- 

 selves in these enjoyments, to increase its fertility and beauty. To the re- 

 gion occupied by the members of this Society, as part and parcel of the 

 original Countj'^ of Chester, pertain the honor and the responsibility of hav- 

 ing been the first resting-place of the Proprietary of this then noble forest, 

 the chosen spot to begin the development of his great idea of a Common- 

 wealth founded upon the blessed principle of " peace on eaith and good will 

 to man." You are the children's children in the third and fourth genera- 

 tions of his companions ; many of you still cultivate the paternal acres 

 which Penn himself granted to your ancestors. You have still the custody 

 of the earliest muniments of Title, and the Records of the first Judicial pro- 

 ceedings in our Commonwealth, which secure to you the possession of the 

 soil that produces these plants and fruits and flowers. 



Invited upon this occasion to speak for you and to you, the speaker has 

 identified himself with you, and feels that he has a right to do so, not alone 

 from a devotion to the common objects of your interesting anniversary. 

 Our children have a common ancestry in the friends and co.napanions of 



