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my which however never were published in the Tranactions of 

 the Board of Agriculture, [or which they were designed. lie 

 then began writing- " A General Treatise on Gardening", but 

 the death of a younger Son who was established in an extensive 

 farm at Woodborough Hall, induced Mr. Speechley to leave 

 Welbcck and settle at that farm, where he continued some years. 

 He tried a course of Agricultural Experiments, and wrote 

 Essays for which he received the Honorary Medal of the Board 

 of Agriculture. After this he left his farm anc^ retired to King's 

 Newton Hall, near which the only surviving branch of his family 

 lived, and wliose removal into Oxfordshire caused Mr. Speecli- 

 ley to remove into that Country, where he died, at Gi. Milton, 

 on the 1st of October, 1819, in the 8Gth year of his age, having 

 stirvived his wife two years.* 



Speechley was not at all a man of Science, but being a man 

 of acute observation and long experience, he perhaps siirpassed 

 every practical Gardener of his age. It is certain that he 

 contributed more than any one to improve the cultiva-tiou of 

 the Pine Apple and Vine, before the appearance of his two 

 works there being little on recoi'd that alibrded any material 

 information to their cultivators. He was author of the follow- 

 ing works. 



1. A Treatise or. the cultivation of the Pine-Apple, and the 

 management of the Hot-house; together witii a descrip- 

 tion of every species of Insect that ini'erts Hot-Ilousos 

 with effectna! methods of destroying them. York. IIVJ- 

 8vo. 2nd Edition. 1796. 



2. A Treatise on the culture .of the Vine, exhibiting new and 

 advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and 

 training that plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. 

 With new hints on the forniati(;n of Vincyiirds in England. 

 York. 4to. 1790. Afterwards in 8vo. 



* Gardener's Magazine, v. 3. p. 38 i. 



