268 ADDRESS. 



Glasgow show in 1838, there were exhibited for prizes, 

 461 neat cattle, 121 horses, 274 sheep, and 47 swine, 

 total 903 domestic animals, in 634 lots. Of the other 

 kinds of competitors, the numbers were as follows : 



The number of persons present at the exhibition, was 

 estimated at over 17,000, besides workmen and official 

 people ; — not one in a thousand of whom probably left 

 the exhibition without carrying home with him some newly 

 acquired knowledge in his business, or some new stimulus 

 to improvement and industry. Not only has Scotland 

 profited by the labors of her Agricultural Society, but 

 Great Britain generally, and even the United States have 

 been highly benefited by them. The information which 

 that Society has promulgated, has been widely dissemi- 

 nated among us by our agricultural journals, and has con- 

 tributed not a little to the improvement of the agriculture 

 of our country. And in England, which had been thrown 

 into the back-ground by the superior improvement of 

 Scotch husbandry, it has, within the last year, induced the 

 formation of the English Agricultural Society, on a broad 

 and liberal scale, which promises 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 neighborhoods of Boston and Philadelphia, where 

 societies of this kind have long existed, and to the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London. In the first-named cities, 

 and their environs, the progress of horticultural improve- 

 ment has been manifestly great. Many new and choice 

 fruits, culinary vegetables, and ornamental plants, have 



