TO HIS GARDENER 19 



new demand will be for him to raise his price in place of raising 

 more Garden Stuff and encouraging people to callfor more 

 from him. The consequence of which will be, no more being 

 caPd for and he '1 lose the busines he might encrease to a great 

 business. This never fails to prove the case with narrow souls 

 who are the destroyers of all attempts for Improving our 

 Country and keeps themselves poor Grovellers in a low way all 

 their lives in place of creating busines to themselves and their 

 getting not only to make them live well but money before 

 hand. I am convinced for one thing George if he thrives and 

 can gett them, will take more rasberry from you than you can 

 raise, for Brandy every year. The north side of the hedge of 

 your father's Garden where now inclosed w^ a Barberry hedge, 

 is well shaded and would be very proper for a large plantation 

 of them. The very Apothecaries in Edinburgh would take 

 quantities every year. Besides if Gentlemen liked them in 

 punch at George'*s they would come there to drink it and 

 probably buy the fruit to use it at home. Both ways will 

 encrease the demand upon you if once the use of them is 

 introduced. You know it is a fruit few have in quantities, so 

 you if such a thing takes, will have the market. I mention 

 such things to make you turn your thoughts to the like. You 

 know I used a great many in my family and still do and all 

 who taste it like it and many in Scotld: have told me they 

 would make,^ upon having tasted it with me, but they could 

 not gett any quantity of fruit. George if he succeeds, 

 may also take Gooseberries Green for Baking or Sauces if 

 Gentlemen come to his house, and also Cherries, Gooseberries 

 and other fruits ripe, for Gentlemen may like a dish of fruit, 

 or such things Baked may go off, if to be had. Other markets 

 will also take such things. You can't doubt of Archichokes, 

 pease. Beans, parsnips, Carrots and the like going off if you 

 have them at proper seasons. I don"'t mean that all are to be 

 ready of one day, but crops under other and in winter what is 

 proper then as in Summer or when every body has not an over 

 Stock of the same things. I must add to my paper having 

 said more than I designed when I began, as frequently happens 

 when I begin to advise any of you. 



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