Dr. Darlington's Address. 103 



We have now before us the address delivered by Mr. 

 Tallmadge at the close of the sixteenth annual exhilDition 

 of the Institute in October last. It contains a variety of 

 statistical information upon the commerce and agriculture 

 of the United States, with some judicious and excellent re- 

 marks relative to the protection of American industry. It 

 is an interesting address to every friend of agricultural 

 improvement. 



Art. Ill, Proceedings of the Neio Castle County Agricul- 

 tural Society and Institute, at the eight Annual Bleeting, 

 held at Wilmington on the X'^th and lAth of September, 

 1843, loith the Address, delivered by William Darling- 

 ton, M. D. Pamphlet 8vo. pp. 58. Wilmington, 1843. 



The larger portion of this pamphlet is filled with the 

 proceedings of the eighth annual exhibition of the New 

 Castle Agricultural Society and Institute, embracing the 

 reports of various committees &c., awarding premiums. 

 It concludes with an excellent address by Dr. Darlington, 

 in which he enforces the importance to the agriculturist 

 and cultivator of the soil, of some knowledge of botany ; 

 so far as to make him acquainted with the true scientific 

 name of all the plants or seeds which grow upon his pre- 

 mises, or are found in his immediate neighborhood. Such 

 information will often be of great benefit, guarding him 

 against deception in the purchase of seeds — enabling him to 

 destroy such plants as are injurious — and cultivate such as 

 are useful. We cannot better speak our own ideas of the 

 importance of this subject than to quote from this address. 



While I would thus urge upon Agriculturists — and especially upon the 

 younger class, the importance of a correct knowledge of all that belongs 

 to the Profession, I shall limit what I have now to say, to a few cursory 

 remarks on the propriety of being accurately acquainted with the history 

 and character of those Plants — whether valuable or pernicious — which 

 come under the daily notice of the farmer. Without derogating in the 

 slightest degree from the importance of the other departments of Natural 

 History, it may be safely affirmed that the vegetable creation presents an 

 eminent claim to the consideration of the cultivators of the soil. It is 

 emphatically with the products of vegetation — the great source of animal 

 subsistence — that the Agriculturist is concerned : and if, in other pursuits, 



