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TO THE KING. 



SIRE, 



It is now upwards of seventeen years since 

 Your Majesty did me the honour to appoint 

 me Your Gardener at Kensington and St. 

 James's ; during which time I have made 

 a great variety of experiments on Fruit and 

 Forest Trees, and introduced the mode of 

 Pruning and Training recommended in the 

 following Treatise. 



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