l-of) EFFECTS OF THE COMPOSITION 



Copy of a Let ta from John Wedg'wood, Esq. 



Cote House, Nov. 14?, 1800. 



Dear Sir, 



When you were with me, you 

 expressed a wish to have the number of Peach and 

 Nectarine trees which I had on my walls, that had 

 been dressed with your Composition. These trees 

 were part of a set which I bought in a lot, and 

 which had been left to grow rude against an old 

 wall, so that they appeared to be gone past all cure. 

 Many were eaten up with the canker, and many 

 were become so naked at the bottom that they gave 

 biit little room to imagine they could be brought 

 into any form. I planted them against my walls in 

 the beginning of the year, where they were left 

 unpruned till the middle of May. The gardener 

 then gave them a severe cutting in, and, as he went 

 on, constantly dressing them with your Composi- 

 tion, carefully eradicating all the canker. I can 

 now safely say, that they are as free from canker 

 as any trees I ever saw, and full of fruit-bearing 

 wood, many of them brought into excellent form, 

 and all of them, except some few which died in the 

 summer, promising to make very useful and profit- 

 able trees ; so that if I had occasion to new-stock 

 my walls, I should as willingly purchase another 



