76 NOTES. 



401 The reduction is from one-third to two-fifths of the value of the average 

 produce, with little diminution of the running and unavoidable expenses. 



402 Middlesex Report, p. 267. The profits of the dealers are not included 

 in this calculation. 



403 Mr Neill's Chapter on Gardens, General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. 

 p. 85. The produce is about L.45 per Scotch acre. Even strawberries do not 

 yield more than from L.40 to L.50. Ditto, p. 90. 



404 An experiment was tried, what quantity of onions could be produced 

 by dint of manure ; and on a quarter of an acre, three tons, gross weight, were 

 raised, which sold for L.24, and left a profit of L.13 after paying the expenses, 

 which amounted to L. 11. The seed was originally from the white Lisbon 



., onion, naturalized to the soil. Communication from the Rev. Robert Hoblyn. 



405 Aberdeenshire Report, p. 364. 



406 This depends much upon the soil. Mr Middleton observes, that the 

 best soil for a fruit-garden, is a free marl (malm). This soil prevails at Brent- 

 ford and Isleworth, in Middlesex, and advantage has been taken of that circum- 

 stance, to build numerous walls, ten feet high, from the produce of which the 

 fruit shops in London are supplied with the very best apricots, peaches, necta- 

 rines, and pears. Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



407 It is calculated, that for the protection of exotic fruits, 479,360 square 

 feet of glass are employed in Scotland alone. General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. 

 p. 121. 



408 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 131, and Appendix, vol. iv. 

 p. 452, where there are some additional hints for improvements of a more mi- 

 nute description. 



409 Mr Middleton states, that some of the fruit-growers of Brentford, Mid- 

 dlesex, protect the blossoms and fruit till out of danger, by a deal or other 

 board, ten or twelve inches in width, placed horizontally upon brackets, near 

 the top of their fruit- walls ; and these are said to afford considerable security to 

 their fruits, (which are supposed to be the finest in Britain), against frost, &c. 

 'Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



- 410 See White's Canada, p. 128. 



411 " If the trees have their bark base, you must, with a bill, take away the 

 " old bark to the quick ; for the trees being thus discharged, do shoot forth with 

 " new strength," &c. Le Gendre, Curate of Hunonville, translated and print- 

 ed at London, an. 1666, a small octavo volume, p. 136. In Hitt's Treatise on 

 Fruit- Trees, printed an. 1 756, 8vo, p. 1 22, it is said, " For those trees that are 

 " not dressed at all, taking off the old rind, and cleansing the cankered parts, de- 

 " stroys many insects and their eggs." In Rivington's Annual Register for 

 J726, title " Useful Projects," p. 109, we are told, that it is customary in Con- 

 necticut, to strip off the bark of old decayed apple-trees, taking care not to in- 

 jure the inner bark, to renovate the trees. In M'Phail's Gardener's Remem- 

 brancer, p. 28 and 29, notice is taken, of experiments made at Kensington Gar- 

 dens, an. 1802, of peeling or cutting off the outer bark, without damaging the 

 inner bark. Also in p. 11 9, the peeling off the loose bark of the vine, and 

 washing the plant with water and soap, with a sponge, is recommended. 



412 The late Mr P. Lyon of Comely Garden, near Edinburgh, tried the ex- 

 'periment on above 800 fruit trees, both young and old, and with considerable 



success. T. A. Knight, Esq. recommends, in the case of old trees, after taking 

 off* the old bark, to graft, on the old stump, new varieties. This hint may be 

 of the greatest service in decayed orchards. 



413 Lancashire Report, p. 83 ; Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 215. In May 

 1808, Mr Shephard's bailiff cut out a ring of bark, between too and three 

 inches broad, and the full depth of the bark, from a very old pear tree, that 

 had never borne fruit, and the consequence was an abundant crop. Bucking- 

 hamshire Report, p. 252. 



414 Bedfordshire Report, p. 156. 



415 It is much disputed, whether rich and pjutrid dung is of use to vegeta- 

 bles. Some contend, that all vegetable produce is sweeter, and more delicate 



