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sington Gardens, where he saw my method of pruning and 

 training, was convinced of its advantages above the old, and had 

 adopted it with great success. Indeed, there were, at the time 

 I was there, the finest and largest crops of grapes that I had 

 ever seen in any forcing houses. Two houses, in particular, 

 were covered from top to bottom with fine grapes, and the 

 vines trained in the serpentine manner. 



John Wedgwood, Esq. of Cote House near Bristol, a gen- 

 tleman who is much attached to gardening and planting, telis 

 me, that he has practised my mode of pruning and training 

 fruit-trees, particularly peaches and nectarines, in his houses ; 

 and that he is highly pleased with the method, which has been 

 attended with great success. 



Lord Frederick Campbell has lately favoured me vnth a list 

 of eighty-five fruit-trees, of different kinds, that were headed 

 down, in his gardens at Coomb Bank in Kent, in the }xars 1798 

 and 1799 ; and afterwards trained and pruned accordmg to my 

 method ; many of them before heading down, were in a very 

 cankery, unfruitful state, and overgrown with moss : These 

 are now in a fruitful, healthy, and flourishing condition, some 

 of the espaliers have made shoots from two to three yards long, 

 and upwards. These trees were cut and prepared by Mr. Wil- 

 liams, who had been for some time accustomed to my way of 

 treating such trees, and whom I recommended to his Lordship 

 as a gardener. These trees are very proper patterns for any 

 gentlemen in the neighbourhood, who wish to give the compo- 

 sition, and method of training and pruning, recommended in 

 this treatise, a fair trial. 



Several successful trials have also been made at the Duke 

 of Dorset's seat, at Knowle in Kent, at Hatfield House, the 

 seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, and at a great many other 

 places; and experiments are now making at Sir Henry Strachey's 

 at Rook's Nest, near Godstone, in Surrey. 



Although I do not mean to enter at large on the culture 

 and management of forest-trees ; yet as the following observa- 

 tions on raising oaks, and directions for planting chesnuts for 

 underwood, may be of considerable service, I shall, without 

 any farther apology, lay them before m}^ readers. 



The best Way of raising Oaks, 



It is a generally received opinion, that when an oak loses 

 its tap-root in transplanting, it never produces another; but 

 this I have proved to be a mistake, by an experiment which I 

 made on a bed of oak plants in the year 1789. I transplanted 

 them into a fresh bed in the forementioned year, cutting the 



