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forest trees ; when, we trust, it will ap- 

 pear to every unprejudiced inind,thatthey 

 are a part of" the creation which can 

 very seldom be benefited by means of 

 Quackery*. 



* It will be observed, the foregoing observations relate 

 chiefly to forest trees, as my present business is with 

 them. — Wp may remark, however, in regard to fruit 

 trees, that much of the same sortof reasoning willapply j 

 though it is obvious that the writer we have quoted under- 

 stood the culture of the latter much hotter than that of 

 the former; still his merits, in regard to them, seem 

 to hinge upon one circumstance : — he had attentively 

 observed what " unassisted nature" could do, provid- 

 ed obstructions were removed out of her wa}' ; and 

 these efforts, by a happy sort of dexterity, he all along 

 exhibits as the effects of his composition. 



The powers of nature being thus impressed into the 

 service, he then, verv consistently, puts the practices of 

 the trade into requisition, by representing himself (in 

 manv parts of his book, but more particularly under 

 the head " Pears") as the inventor of cutting down 

 fruit trees, in order to renew their strength and fruit- 

 fulness; witij how nuich truth, gardeners and nursery- 

 men can easily teli us. If such discoveries are to pass 



