6o Delaioare Agricultural Society. 



'one hundred trees to each of their acres, — would their other crops in any 

 manner be prejudiced thereby ? Would not the verdure and beauty of the 

 scenery more than balance all inconveniences'? Let these trees continue to 

 grow, for one generation only, and the trees themselves would be of more 

 value, than the land on which they were planted. Let them be planted in 

 the streets of villages, and about dwellings, as seems to be the growing 

 taste of the public, and they will have a value almost beyond estimate.* 



We commend this to the notice of all owners and culti- 

 vators of land, confident that in no way can a great portion 

 of the now waste land of our State be made to produce a 

 better profit to the planter. Arboriculture is just now begin- 

 ning to attract attention, and our agricultural societies should 

 encourage the plantation of trees by liberal premiums. 



The fruit and flower report is from the pen of J. S. Cabot, 

 and the report of Fruit trees from J. C. Lee of Salem. It is 

 gratifying to see so much attention given to the cultivation 

 of fruit trees. A slight increase in the amount of the premi- 

 ums, would be attended, we think, with better results. 



Art, II. Transactions of the Agricultural Society and Insti- 

 tute, of Newcastle County, Delaware, at the Ninth Annual 

 Meeting, held at Wilmington, on the 11th and 12th of Sept. 

 1844, with the Address delivered hy J. S. Skinner, Esq. 

 Published by order of the Society. Pamp. 8vo, pp. 52. 

 Wilmington, 1844. 



Little Delaware is zealous in the cause of agricultural 

 science. The pamphlet now before us, contains the reports 

 of numerous committees awarding premiums for flowers and 

 fruits, vegetables, agricultural implements, improved stock, 

 &c. It closes with an excellent address by our correspond- 



* In three instances within my observation have I known the ravages of fire stopped 

 by the shady elms. This was distinctly so in the destructive fire of Sept. 22, 1843, at 

 Danvers, which was prevented passing from the Church to the easterly side of the way, 

 by several thrifty elms that had been set only about twenty years. Had it not been 

 stayed in this manner, the whole village must have been consumed. A similar event 

 happened at Gloucester but a few years since. Surely such facts should prompt to the 

 cultivation of such trees. 



