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PREFACE. 



TO 



THE FIRST EDITION. 



To the many Publications that have appeared on 

 the Management of Fruit and Forest Trees, it 

 may be thought superfluous to add ; and, indeed, 

 so little am I accustomed to the practice of writino-, 

 that I feel no small degree of reluctance in ofFerino- 

 any thing to public inspection ; but an entire con- 

 viction of the advantages to be derived from the 

 observations and directions contained in the fol- 

 lowing pages, joined to the importunity of many of 

 the most competent judges, has determined me to 

 make my method of pruning and training, and the 

 success attending it, as pubhc as possible. 



Having long observed the scanty crops both on 

 waU and standard trees that have followed the 

 usual mode of pruning and training, I was led to 

 make many experiments, in order to discover, if it 

 were possible, a more successful method. Nor 

 have my endeavours been in vain ; for, after fol- 

 lowing a new mode for several years, I can with 



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