Gardening in Scotland. 43 



and sucker ; but he does not say so much as 

 one might have expected about the berry 

 tribe, which has always been regarded as 

 thriving northward better than in England. 

 He enumerates among standards apples, 

 pears, cherries, gooseberries, currants, bar- 

 berries, quinces, walnuts, chestnuts, filberts, 

 and service-nuts. For the wall he recom- 

 mends apricots, peaches, nectarines, almonds, 

 the vine, figs, currants, apples, pears, cherries, 

 plums, etc. ; but, he says, "you need not take 

 up much with almond, vine, fig, nor necta- 

 rine." Probably there was not sun enough 

 to ripen them. The book altogether con- 

 tains a fair amount of curious information, 

 serviceable for comparison ; but the method, 

 as in all these early treatises, is faulty and 

 confused. He has much to say on the sub- 

 ject of pruning, and commences by observ- 

 ing : " Some Ignorants are against pruning, 

 suffering their trees to run and ramble to such 

 a head of confusion, as neither bears well 

 nor fair." 



Reid's book did not acquire much popu- 

 larity; but it was reprinted in 1721 and 1766. 



