...tion of agriculture was very great, and his exertions for that object commenced early in life and continued to old age, even to the detriment of his own interests. Charles Carter Lee, in his poem Virginia Georgics , has a humorous couplet to the effect that, while Garnett lectured on agriculture, his neighbor Waring ploughed his corn. Mr. Garnett's annual addresses to the Agricultural Society of Fredericksb...