of this kind in Connecticut where the Cherry 

 will scarcely grow, and a crop of the Apple or 

 the Pear is mit obtained once in ten years ; 

 while the adjacent hill-tops and high country, a 

 couple or three miles distant, yield abundant 

 crops annually. On the other hand, the borders 

 of large rivers, as die Hudson, or of some of our 

 large inland lakes, are the most favorable situa- 

 tions for fruit trees, as the climate is rendered 

 milder by large bodies of water. In the garden 

 where we write, a fourth of a mile from the 

 Hudson, we have frequently seen ice fonned 

 during the night, of the thickness of a dollar, 

 when the blossoms of the Apricot were fully 

 expanded, without doing the least harm to that 



teiider fruit. This is owing to the slight fog ris- 

 ing from the river in the morning, which, soft- 

 ening the rays of the sun, and dissolving gradu- 

 ally tlie frost, prevents the injurious ell'ects of 

 sudden thawing. At the same time, a couple of 

 miles from the shores, this fruit will often be 

 quite destroj^ed. In short, the season on the 

 lower half of the Hudson, may, from the ameli- 

 orating influence of the river, be said to be a 

 month longer — a fortnight earlier in spring, and 

 later in autumn, than in the same latitude a few 

 miles distant : and crops of the more tender fraits 

 are, tlierefore, much more certain ou the banks 

 of large rivers or lakes, than iu inland districts 

 of the same climate. 



AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSE, 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE QUEENS COUNTY AGRICULTUTIAL SOCIETY, AT HEMPSTEAD, L. I. 



October 9th, 1845. 



I.v compliance with the followmg invitation, 1 

 we delivered, on the 9th of October last, the 

 succeeding Address : 



Jericho, Queens Co., Sept. 9, 1845. . 

 Hon. J. S. Sktnnee : 



My Dear Sir — At a meeting of the Board of Mana- 

 gers of the Queens County Agricultural Society, held 

 this day, a Committee was appointed to select a 

 proper person to deliver the Address at their Fair and 

 Cattle Show, to be held at Hempstead, on the 9th of 

 October next. 



The Committee have unanimously instructed me 

 to invite you to be the Orator on that occasion ; and, 

 in dischargin3 this agreeable duty, I can but express 

 the hope that you may find it agreeable to gi-atify our 



desires. 



With much respect, 



I am, dear sir, your ob't ser^'t, 

 ALBERT G. C.4RLL. 



C/tairman, 6fC. 



The following note and resolution explains 

 its appearance in the pages of the " Farmers' 

 Library :" 



Jebicho, Oct. 9, 1845. 

 To the Hon. J. S. SKrs-VEB: 



My Dear Sir — Immediately after the deliveiy of 

 your Address, this day. before the Queens County 

 Asricu'tural Society, the foUoviing Resolution was 

 adopted ; 



" Resolted. unanimously. That we tender to our 

 most esteemed friend, Mr. SKrxXEB, our hearty and 

 sincere thanks for the beautiful and interesting Ad- 

 dress he has just delivered before us ; and w^c beg 

 he will fiimish a copy for publication in the ' Farm- 

 ers' Library,' and in pamphlet form." 



Allow me to express the hope that you may find it 

 agreeable to comply with this request of the yeoman- 

 ry of our County, whose admiration for the Address 

 is only equaled by their esteem and respect for it* 



(484) 



Author — in whom they recognize one of the earliest 

 advocates for the improvement of American Hus- 

 bandry. 



1 am. with great respect, my dear sir, 

 Very truly, yom- obedient servant, 

 ALBERT G. CARLL, 

 Corresponding Secy. 



Ladies a>"d Ge:!*tlemex — Membebs of the 



Queens County Agriculturai. Society: 



The natural conjecture, how it is that, being al- 

 most a ' stranger v^-ithin your gates,' I should have 

 been thus complimented with an appointment 

 to address you on an occasion of so much interest 

 to you all, can only be solved by the supposition 

 that some report of my humble labors, in other 

 forms, may have led you to invite for your Advo- 

 cate to-day one who. however otherwise inade- 

 quate, may j-et venture to plead the merit of sin- 

 cere devotion to your cause. Not that sudden and 

 transient zeal, which ignites like powder, and 

 explodes as soon — burning only at festivals and 

 holidays — but that early-imbibed and enduring 

 inspiration, which, falling from the lips of a pa- 

 rent, him.'^elf, by inheritance and by choice, a 

 practical farmer, fell on the heart of ilic son — 

 grew with his growth, and strengthened as ma- 

 turing judgment qualified him to compare the 

 various pursuits of life, and to note tlieir bear- 

 ing, respectively, on the welfare of society. 



Going in early life to reside in a populous 

 city, and casting about for occupation of those 

 leisure hours which are alwaj-s full of danger, 

 it seemed to me. as does it not to yon ? to be 

 passing strange that, with so many papers to 

 enlighten anil push forward ail other pursaitB, 

 there should, until then, never have been one in 



