PREFACE. 



tended as an introduction to Botany, or a 

 Gardener's Dictionary, I think it would be 

 wrong to confuse the reader with more than 

 is stated in the_title page. I am certain there 

 s great room for improvement in England, 

 were the soils and situations properly studied, 

 after the following treatise. I should not 

 speak so confidently, were it not from a long 

 series of practice ; for when I say there are 

 thousands, and tens of thousands of apple 

 and other trees, in different parts of England, 

 which have been grafted and managed by 

 my own hands till they have been sent to 

 their respective places of destination, toge- 

 ther with the opportunity of fruiting and prov- 

 ing all the best sorts now in cultivation the 

 confidence in attempting this work will not 

 be surprising ; and likewise the discovery of 

 the remedy for the canker, which I have 

 made my study for some years, and which 

 I am sorry to say, I have no doubt affects, 

 more or less, above one half of the trees 

 which have gone from me as well as others ; 

 and the whole of which were threatened with 



