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rcqueft, I have begun pfeparinjg a communication 

 of my praflicc to the publick; and in order to qua- 

 lify, myfelf to throw the ftrongeft light pofliblc on 

 the fubjc(5l, have (locked my garden with every 

 fpecics or variety of thefc fruits now cultivated ei- 

 ther in France or England. Such another colleftion 

 is not, 1 believe, to be found in this country. The 

 generality of fruits have long been familiar to me ; 

 of the particulars hitherto unobferved, many are in 

 a train for bearing next fummer, and the reft the 

 year following : — when, having grown them all in 

 the fame kind of foil, and under one and the fame 

 mode of treatment, it will be eafy to determine 

 whether the varieties pretended to, really exift, to 

 mai'k the fpecifick differences of one from the other, 

 to judge of their refpedive merits as to fize and 

 flavour, fo as decidedly to point out thofe which de- 

 fcrve future propagation, from thofe which, being 

 <:omparatively worthlefs, ought to be condemned 

 to perpetual exclufion. 



Having made this fingle branch of horticulture 

 my ftudy, both in theory and pradlice, for thirty 

 years and upwards, and having proved, to the afto- 

 nilhment of many, that wall-trees will perfe<5lly con*- 

 form to the will of the pruner in the due arrange- 

 ment of their branches j in their general rcfemblance 

 to each other i in an aptitude to furnifli tjie wall in 



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