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Scott to the ' Journal of the Agri-Horticultural Society/ 

 I hope I may count upon his kind indulgence. It may 

 be as well, too, here to state that, much as I have drawn 

 in the way of information from the writings of others, 

 I have never paraphrased it and passed it off as original, 

 but invariably given it in their own words. Nor 

 should I, in common honesty, have considered myself 

 entitled to make use of information so derived at all if, 

 of whatever benefit it might be to me, I saw that it 

 could by any possibility be attended with loss or in- 

 justice to them. 



September, 1874. 



