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dening and planting, tells me, that he has practised 

 my mode of pruning and training fruit-trees, parti- 

 cularly Peaches and Nectarines, in his houses ; and 

 that he is highly pleased with the method, which 

 has been attended with great success. 



Lord Frederick Campbell has lately favoured me 

 with a list of eighty-five fruit trees, of different 

 kinds, that were headed down in his gardens at 

 Coomb-bank, in Kent, in the years 1798 and 1799 ; 

 and afterwards trained and pruned according to 

 my method : many of them, before heading down, 

 were in a very cankery unfruitful state, and over- 

 grown with moss ; these are now in a fruitful, 

 healthy, and flourishing condition ; some of the 

 Espaliers have made shoots from two to three 

 yards long and upwards. These trees were cut 

 and prepared by Mr. Williams, w^ho had been for 

 some time accustomed to my way of treating such 

 trees, and whom I recommended to his Lordship 

 as a gardener. These trees are very proper pat- 

 terns for any gentlemen in the neighbourhood, 

 who wish to give the Composition, and method of 

 training and pruning, recommended in this Trea- 

 tise, a fair trial. 



Several successful trials have also been made at 

 the Duke of Dorset's seat, at Knowle, in Kent, at 

 Hatfield House, the seat of the Marquis of Salis- 

 bury, and at a great many other places ; and experi- 

 ments are now making at Sir Henry Strachey's, at 

 Rook's Nest, near Godstone, in Surrey. 



