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 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Likbis. 



Vol. XII.— No. 6.] 



1st mo. (January) loth, 1848. 



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POBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A H T A T U M, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see 1 ast page. 



'"William H. Diilinsham's Address. 



On the 10th of Ninth month last, W. H. Dillingham 

 of this city, delivered an Address before the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Chester county, Pa., at West Chester. 

 The following are extracts from it.— Ed. 



The name of the State in which we re- 

 joice, is descriptive of its characteristic fea- 

 tures tdl the first settlers. Penn found the 

 country granted to Iiim 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 splendors of Flora, products of the rich 

 inheritance of a Tiappy soil and clime, per- 

 petuated to us by the virtues of our ances- 

 tors, while felicitating ourselves in these en^ 

 joyments, to increase its fertility and beauty 

 To the region occupied by the members of 

 this Society, as part and parcel of the origi- 

 nal county of Chester, pertain the honour 

 and the responsibility of having been the 



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first resting place of the Proprietary of this 

 then noble forest, the chosen spot to begin 

 the development of his great idea of a com- 

 monwealth founded upon the blessed princi- 

 ple of " peace on earth and good will to 

 man." You are the children's children in 

 the third and fourth generations of his com- 

 panions; many of you still cultivate the pa- 

 ternal 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 proceedings 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 him- 

 self with you, and feels that he has a right 

 to do so, not alone from a devotion to the 

 common objects of your interesting anniver- 

 sary. Our children have a common ances- 

 try in the friends and companions of Penn.. 

 Within these walls, now decorated by fair 

 hands for this autumnal festival, for half a 

 life- time he took an earnest, anxious part in 

 the questions connected with the settlement 

 of the estates where you plant your gardens 

 and cultivate your grounds. Here he has 

 toiled, as some present can bear him good 

 witness, for days and weeks, to demonstrate, 

 [that a decayed relic of one of the ancient 

 [monarchs of Penn's woods, "to vi'it," a cer- 

 jtain black-oak stump, should determine all 

 'questions about a boundary line of one of 

 |the estates "aforesaid." But this ancient 



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