viii ORMISTOUN^S LETTERS 



PAGE 

 III 



(London, 12th Feb. 1734.) 



Correspondence troubles — elms sent out of Herts — vial 

 with crab-apple seed — timber to be cut for sale — 

 value of timeous pruning — trees planted in hedge- 

 rows about the town — cutting in Alex. Wight's 

 wood — Swedish fir seed and Glasgow packet — 

 planting out elms^ ashes^ and oaks — in tenants' 

 hedgerows — sowing fir seed — Gregory and a Bill of 

 Exchange^ ...... 5-11 



IV 



(2lst Feb. 1734.) 



Weather — inquiries about planting of elms, getting seed 

 of silver and common firs — planting out hazels — 

 watering — inquiries about walnuts — where to buy 

 chesnuts — elms out of Herts just put on board for 

 Leith, ...... 11-14 



V 



(2hst Dec. 17.34.) 



Bell's bad ink — Alex. Cokburn's blundering — protection of 

 the nursery by a dike — defective hedging — blunders 

 of the Wights being repeated — nursery to be at once 

 fenced, . . . . . .14-17 



VI 



(27M Dec. 1734.) 



Bell combining his own gardening with Cockburn's — 

 views on market-gardening — bad business ways — 

 short-sighted policy of Scots — the improving town 

 and business prospects — a good public-house — trade 

 in raspberries for punch — openings at home and in 



