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Having read mod of the books hitherto pub- 

 lifhed relating to this art, and not finding one that 

 teaches the true rudiments, there feems to be an 

 opening left for a work of this kind, which I have 

 fjot in contemplation only, but in fome forwardnefs, 

 as you will perceive by the drawings fcnt herewith.* 

 Many of them being in a rough unfinifhed flate, 

 fhall I trouble you with laying them before the ar- 

 till who reduced the oaks, to know whether he will 

 copy and improve fome particulars, and fhade and 

 finifh others, according to the diredlions accompa- 

 nying them ? In cafting your eye over the drawings, 

 with the few explanations which attend them, you 

 may give a guefs at the defign and utility of the work. 

 If you wifh to communicate them to fome few of 

 the ingenious members of your fociety, you have 

 my permifTion. If in your united opinions, a work 



• Thefe drawings arc in themfelves mafterly, and the artift now 

 employed in finiftiiug them is a man of firft-rate abilities. The tef- 

 timonies to the fuperior excellence of the author's fruits, are the 

 Tnoft rcfpeaable and full. W. M. 



The work is to be entitled, " The Gentleman's Recreation in 

 •« the Fruit Garden ; or, a Treatife on the Culture of Peaches and 

 «« Ne^arines ; embcUilhed with plates, and notes explanatory to a 

 «* regular fyftem, for the training, pruning, and management of 

 ** Wall-trees, from their infancy to advanced old age : with direc- 

 «' tions how to obtain a conftant even crop of the moll deliciouf 

 ** fruit ; with thoughts on the produ»^ion of flavour j cures for 

 «« the feveral difeales fruit-trees arc prone to; the prevention of 

 «« blights, dertruftion of vermin, and prefervation of thr fruit iii 

 «< full beauty, till arrived at the height of pcrfe^JUon." 



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