^ ADVERTISEMENT. 



The treatife written by Mr. Kennedy, as alfo 

 that by Mr. Speechly, were publifhed by fub- 

 fcription; and the one written by Mr. Forfyth 

 was, as I have been informed, intended for fub- 

 fcription; but government thinking the dif- 

 clofure of the fecret might tend to the benefit 

 of the public, gave the author a reward for its 

 difcovery. 



Notwithilanding all this, it is flill acknow- 

 kdged by thofe whofe knowledge is not local, 

 that on an average one half, at leaft, of the 

 melon and cucumber plants raifed in this king- 

 dom yearly, are, by difeafes and infects, brought 

 into a fickly ftate *, and frequently entirely de- 

 ftroyed: And, perhaps, not one houfe of pine- 

 apple plants in ten is, at this time, clear of 

 difeafes or infeds : The fame may be faid in re- 

 fped to the number of fruit and foreft trees. 

 This, to cYerj intelligent obicrver, being evi- 

 dently the cafe, there is ftill room for others to 

 come forvrard, and offer methods to effe£l that 

 which, in faO:, is not yet effeCied, 



Of all thofe who have publiihed receipts or 

 remedies for the dcilrudtion of infe6ls on the 

 pine-apple plant, none, to my knowledge, have 



* When pliuiJr. aro in a ficldy aalc they cannot produce good or 

 h^^iltliy fir. it, 



c ever 



