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Page 62. — The author of this treatise, who is a zealous or- 

 chardist, is lavish in his praise of a then discovered apple-tree 

 and its produce, " for the little cot-house to which it belongs, 

 together with the little quillet in which it stands, being seve- 

 ral years since mortgaged for ten pounds, the fruit of this 

 tree alone, in a course of some years, freed the house and 

 garden, and its more valuable self, from that burden." A 

 neighbouring clergyman, too, was equally lavish, for he 

 " talked of it in all conversations," and such was his praise 

 of it, that every one " fell to admiration." Mr. Stafford is 

 so pleased with this reverend gentleman's zeal, in extending 

 the cultivation of this apple, (the Royal Wilding) that he 

 says, "I could really wish, whenever the original tree decay- 

 eth, his status carved out of the stump, by the most expert 

 hand, and overlaid with gold, may be erected near the pub- 

 lic road, in the place of it, at the common charge of the 

 country." He celebrates also another apple, which " in a 

 pleasant conversation was named by a gentleman super-celes- 

 tial. Another gentleman, in allusion to Pynes, the name of 

 my house, and to the common story of the West India pine- 

 apple, (which is said to be the finest fruit in the world, and 

 to represent every exquisite flavour that is known), deter- 

 mined that it should be called the pyne-apple ; and by either 

 of these names it is talked of when pleasantry and conversa- 

 tion bring the remembrance of it to the table." 



Page 64. — It is but justice to Mr. Gibson to say, that in 

 his Fruit Gardener, he has entered fully into the merits of 

 Le Genre's Le maniere cle cultiver les arbres fruitier -s ; and 

 that his pages are extremely interesting. The great merits 

 of Quintinye are also not overlooked. 



Page 84. — To the list of those deceased authors, whose 

 portraits I have not been able to discover, I must add the 

 following : 



