TO HIS GARDENER 31 



Think of such things, enlarge your thoughts and ways of 

 acting, and I shall have no doubt of your drawing yourself into 

 good and profitable business, but you must pluck up Resolution ; 

 to push it heartily in every part is wanting to bring it to bear. 



If I can get a draught from Mr. Gordon,^ you 1 have much 

 occasion for being at the Town of Orm: which will give you 

 an opportunity of seeing things go on at your father's, and also 

 other things there. Write to me particularly who is going on 

 with Building and how they advance. Let me also know 

 when G. Ramsay opens his house, and how he goes on in it 

 and in Brewing, and if his house is in order and his 

 Customers pleased. I have not heard of him for some time, 

 nor a line from Alex*^ Wight for a long time, tho' I continued 

 writing to him long after he had given over answering any, 

 and tho"* I wrote of several things required answers in order to 

 my giving further directions. If I gave advices he did not 

 care to follow, it is no excuse for not writing, for I only men- 

 tion upon such occasions what I think may be of service, but I 

 never insisted upon my thoughts being followed. I design 

 them well, but I leave every man to judge for himself in his 

 own affairs without censuring of them for not thinking in 

 their own concerns as I do. If my advices are not liked the 

 trouble that is lost is mine, and I shall always be glad they do 

 better, without taking ill their not being of my opinion. Since 

 writing I have yours. Show the enclosed as usual, but keep 

 this long letter to yourself. Borrow a Cart from any of the 

 Tenants for the Spars or any other uses without asking my 

 Bror^ for the least thing or taking any notice when you are to 

 borrow one. None of the Tenants will refuse you one. 



Since the want of the draught delays my directing you to 

 oversee the enclosing at the Town I hope you '1 be able to do 

 something at the Sneding in the old Swine Ward and by 

 West it, in the mean time. Thin the tops, but leave some 

 branches lower than some you take out to keep the bodies 

 steady, otherwise a small top when the sap is in, may crack 

 and break a tree when frush and full of sap. Top over the 



^ Mr. Gordon is on the Club List as Lewis Gordon of Gordonhall, the house 

 built for him in the village. The Farmer's Magazine (vol. v.) says he was a civil 

 engineer brought from London to lay out the village. See Introduction, p. xxxvi, 

 and p. 42. 



