874i OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, &C. 



Treasury, to investigate the efficacy of my 

 Composition ; for which purpose they most at- 

 tentively examined the state, condition, and 

 progress of cure, of the decayed and injured 

 trees in Kensington gardens, to which it had 

 been apphed in experiments of various kinds, 

 for upwards of seven preceding years ; and, after 

 having, by a very full enquiry, strict investiga- 

 tion, and the most minute attention, satisfied their 

 minds in every particular, they reported to the 

 Lords of the Treasury tlie result of their exam- 

 ination, expressing their unanimous opinion and 

 conviction, that " The Composition was a 

 discovery which miglit be rendered highly bene- 

 ficial both to individuals and the Public." That 

 Report, and also a Letter previously written 

 to the Committee by the Commissioners of the 

 Land Revenue, of which I have been favoured 

 with copies, are, for the farther information of the 

 Public, inserted in the Appendix.* 



Having been thus honoured by the unanimous 

 approbation of persons so respectable for their 

 rank, character, and knowledge, I proceeded to 

 exert myself in making various additional trials 

 and experiments, to enable me to give farther 

 proofs of the efficacy of my Composition, in 

 restoring the powers of vegetation to trees so far 

 decayed as to be of no value as timber, but which, 

 from their situation as a skreen, or as composing 



* See No. V. of the Appendix. 



