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ART. XXIII. 
Two Letters on useful Modes of Pranrine, and 
on Prevention of Smut, Sc. &e. 
Addreffed to the Society. 
[By Mr. Joun Wacsrarre.] 
GENTLEMEN, 
j Baie lately told, by a gentleman of diftinétion, 
that, in the prefent tafte of defigning the pleafure- 
grounds, the fruit and kitchen garden muft necef-, 
farily be at a diftance from the villa. Whether this 
tafte be faftidious or natural, I pretend not to exa- 
mine. It is fufficient to obferve, that as the utility 
of thefe gardens is more and more acknowledged, 
their contiguity, or remote diftance, is the lefs ma-_ 
terial; for which reafon I fhall propofe, asa plan — 
for ufeful imitation, what has lately' been prattifed 
by a gentleman diftinguifhed for his rural, eco- 
nomics, and for converting a reputed barren foil 
to purpofes of agriculture, and more peculiarly — 
raifirg a foreft on a large circuitous tract of wafte, 
where it was generally believed no foreft-tree could’ 
be raifed three feet from the ground. Yet it is 
within thefe planted improvements that this additional 
improvement has fucceeded, and every culinary plant 
common to our country, as well as their rare 
varieties, 
