JUDGE BUEL'S ADDRESS. 311 



For Butter . . . . * . . 18 



Full Milk Cheese J5 



Skim Milk Cheese 



Wool 



Koots and Seeds 



Implements 



6 



8 



13 



28 



In 88 lots. 



The number of persons present was estimated at 

 over 17,000, besides workmen and official people; 

 not one in a thousand of whom probably left the ex- 

 hibition without carrying home with him some new- 

 ly-acquired knowledge in his business, or some new 

 stimulants to improvement and industry. Not only 

 has Scotland profited by the labours of her agricul 

 tural society, but Great Britain generally, and even 

 the United States have been highly benefited by 

 them. The information which that society has pro- 

 mulgated has been widely disseminated among us 

 by our agricultural journals, and has contributed not 

 a little to the improvement of the agriculture of our 

 country. And in England, which had been thrown 

 into the background by the superior improvements 

 in Scottish husbandry, it has within the last year 

 induced the formation of the English Agricultural 

 Society, on a broad and liberal scale, which prom- 

 ises important advantages to English husbandry, and 

 to agriculture generally. 



As evidence of the utility of horticultural societies 

 in multiplying and improving the products of our 

 gardens and in promoting rural embellishments. I 

 would refer to the neighbourhoods of Boston and 

 Philadelphia, where societies of this kind have long 

 existed, and to the Horticultural Society of London. 

 In the first-named cities and their environs, the 

 progress of horticultural improvement has been 

 manifestly great. Alany new and choice fruits, cu- 

 linary vegetables, and ornamental plants have been 

 introduced, culture has been much improved, the 

 markets better supplied, and prices cheapened. 



