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public. Under his management many timber trees, 

 become entirely hollow, were filled with new wood, 

 and made to produce fresh and vigorous branches ; 

 and pear-trees, planted in the time of King William, 

 and become so decayed and knotty as to bear no fruit 

 worth gathering, were by gradual paring away of the 

 old wood and bark, and the application of a composi- 

 tion judiciously contrived to stick close and keep out 

 air and wet, restored to such health and strength as to 

 cover the garden walls with new branches bearing a* 

 profusion of fine fruit. These experiments have passed 

 under my own actual observation, and I am happy to 

 bear testimony to the merits of a real lover of useful 

 science, and one of the most honest and disinterested* 

 men I ever knew. 



