HOUTICULTUKAL REPORT. 



TO THE MANAGERS OF " THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE/^ 

 PRESIDING AT THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL FAIR, HELD 

 AT CASTLE GARDEN, OCTOBER, 1S47. 



Gentlemen — Time, in its onward march, has leniently spared me 

 to furnish a Report of Agricultural and Horticultural productions 

 presented for competition at the twentieth Annual Fair of the 

 American Institute. With unmingled pleasure, I have noticed the 

 ardent zeal manifested by truly enlightened citizens, in fostering and 

 advancing the interests of Terraculture. 



Aware of its paramount importance, the officers of your Institute, 

 with a perseverance entitled to the highest praise, have vigilantly 

 labored to establish an Agricultural School and Experimental Farm, 

 in the vicinity of New-York. Futile objections have been raised by 

 prejudiced or unthinking individuals against its prescribed location; 

 but the advantages which a school of this description would derive 

 from its contiguity to the " Empire City," are so manifest, that op- 

 position to this noble project must ultimately become so feeble as 

 not to deserve the notice of the reflecting. 



It is sincercely to be hoped that our next Legislature will sustain 

 you in the furtherance of this measure, by the adoption of such 

 means as will place this school on a permanent foundation. Other 

 states would follow so patriotic a course, and the benefits derivable 

 from agricultural information would be disseminated throughout the 

 length and breadth of the land. 



In these seminaries, the minds of the students should be imbued 

 with sound knowledge derived from long-tried practice. The ways 



