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great growth, when we consider it was only a month since it left 

 this ciij. His garden is exceedingly rich,weedless, and as light 

 as scientific culture can make it. Of his apple trees it is use- 

 less to speak, as their fruit has a world-wide reputation. His 

 orchard contains 21,000 trees, young, healthy and vigorous. 



With the useful Mr. Pell combines the ornamental. His fish 

 ponds are eight in number, of spring water and encircled by 

 flowers and willows, and contain forty-two different varieties of 

 fish. The sturgeon is there ! the rarest fish of Europe are ! and 

 there is to be found fresh shad every day in the year ! "Who, Mr. 

 Chairman, ever heard, before Mr. Pell tried the experiment, of a 

 pond one hundred and fifty feet above a river, of spring water, 

 containing shad ? Histoiy tells us that the Aztec monarchs daily 

 ate in the city of Mexico fish caught in the Gulf and brought 

 thence by swift runners, a distance of some two hundred miles. 

 Here fish of the most choice kinds can be, at a moment's notice, 

 placed upon the table. His crops are cultivated upon the widest 

 and most approved scale. If all farmers would throw away 

 principles long since known, by intelligent men, to be false, and 

 read, think and reflect, what would this country become? Why, 

 sir, its fondest lover, its most romantic dreamer, could not " look 

 into the womb of time" and picture to himself the beauty of the 

 scene ! ■ The plants of the tropics would be ate upon the moun- 

 tain's top ; fleets of vessels would bear abroad the rifh products 

 of America ; and but let science be the handmaid of the tillers of 

 our soil, and the inhabitants of now almost unknown countries 

 would ask, like the Peri at the gate, to be admitted into our 

 heaven. Will we slumber on ? must we be content with the 

 crops now grow^n 1 must foreign countries find a market on soil 

 that nature made with no sparing hand '? No! no! "twill not be 

 so! Our farmers are shaking oft' their lethargy, and America is 

 just rising, soon to look down upon countries of an older birth. 



Gen. Chandler — I did not intend, upon this occasion, to make 

 any allusion to my recent very pleasant visit to the farm of our 

 friend Mr. Pell. Under the circumstances, however, I feel called 

 upon to say that I tiiere saw much to admire, much really to as- 

 tonish me, of which I may avail myself on some other occasion to 

 speak more at large. Mr. Pell merits the highest commendation 



