even' part with the richefl garniture of leaves, 

 bloom, and fruit, in their refpedtive feafons ; I think 

 I may, without prefumption, attempt to inftfu6t 

 others how by the fame means they may cffcd the 

 like purpofes. To do this methodically, I fhall 

 begin with trees in their infancy, advance gradually 

 through the feveral ftages of their progrefs, and ac- 

 company them till they arrive at maturity. To 

 point out the miftakes that fome have fallen into ; 

 to flicw the defedls of modern pradice ; to contrail 

 imperfe6t with perfedl figures, will require copper-' 

 plates exhibiting their varied appearances in the 

 pruned and unpruned (late ; by which an accurate 

 obferver may, with the afTiilance of the remarks 

 accompanying them, eafily attain a knowledge of 

 the fuhje(5l fufficient to enable him to manage his 

 own wall-trees, and obtain fuch fruit as he fcldom 

 fees elfe where. A new field of innocent and ufe* 

 ful amufement will here b^ laid open for the coun- 

 try gentleman to employ his leifure hours in rural 

 retirement, and to fill up the intervals of fludy, to the 

 refident clergy, in a way by no means uabecom.ing 

 their fundion, Mr. Laurence, re6lor of Bilhop's 

 Weremouth in Durham, the befl pruner of his 

 time, recommends the pradjce to his brethren as a 

 recreation that will fill up thofe little parenthefes of 

 of their lives, which commonly go for nothing, in 

 an intereiling and pleafurable manner, 



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