OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES. S75 



part of a general uniform appearance in the Royal 

 gardens, it became a desirable object to preserve. 

 Nor were my endeavours less successful in this 

 subordinate experiment, than they had been in 

 those which were directed by circumstances of 

 superior interest ; for I had the very great satis- 

 faction to find, that, in consequence of my treat- 

 ment of trees in that state of decay which has just 

 been specified, a few years' growth has filled up 

 unsightly chasms, and restored that uniformity to 

 their local position, which young plants set in their 

 places would not have accomplished in a long 

 course of successive years. 



The Report of the Committee having been laid 

 before His Majesty, in consideration of the great 

 utility and advantage which must arise to the 

 country at large from the use of this Composition, 

 His Majesty was most graciously pleased to order 

 a reward to be given to the author, for making 

 known to the public the materials of which it is 

 composed, with the method of preparing it, as 

 well as the mode of its application 5 and, in order 

 to difiuse the benefits of this discovery throughout 

 the kingdom, an advertisement * has been inserted 

 in the London Gazette, and in most of the town 

 and country newspapers. 



The very great importance to this country of 

 securing a continued succession of good, healthy, 

 and well-growing forest trees, producing sound, 

 unblemished timber, for supplying the various 



* See No. VI. of the Appendix. 

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