PREFACE. VU 



degree of confidence in my own experience ; 

 and I truft, therefore, that I fliall not be deemed 

 prefumptuous for having, in thefe circurnftances, 

 undertaken the finifhing and editing of the 

 Planter s Kalendar. 



Founding on my own practice and experi- 

 ence, I have, where left entirely to myfelf, felt 

 it my duty, on one or two occafions, to give 

 opinions and advices different from thofe deli- 

 vered by my friend in his Practical Planter, al- 

 ready mentioned. I allude, in particular, to 

 what is faid concerning the pruning of Firs and 

 Larches hi the foreft and the grove ; the man- 

 ner, in fome inftances, of pruning young hard- 

 wood trees ; and the rules to be obferved iri 

 pitting of grounds, according to their nature 

 and other circumflances. Thefe matters were 

 occasionally the fubjet of friendly difcuffion 

 between us. In the following work, I thought 

 it better at once to ftate my own views, than to 

 have firft brought forward Mr Nicol's, and then, 

 in efteft, to have confuted them, which a re- 

 gard for the truth would have required of me, 



I feel that, on other grounds, fome explan- 

 ation, and perhaps apology, is due to my.bre- 

 thren x in the nurfery line. It may poflibly be 



thought^ 



