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Copy of a Letter from John Wedgwood^ Esq> 



Cote House, Nov. 14, 1800. 



DEAR SIR, 



Wh EN you were with me you expressed a wish to have 

 the number of peach and nectarine trees which I had on my 

 walls that had been dressed with your composition. These 

 trees were part of a set which I bought in a lot, and which had 

 been left to grow rude against an old wall, so that they ap- 

 peared to be gone past all cure. Many were eaten up with 

 the canker, and many were become so naked at the bottom 

 that they gave but little room to imagine they could be brought 

 into any form. I planted them against my walls in the be- 

 ginning of the year, where they were left unpruned till the 

 middle of May. The gardener then gave them a severe cut- 

 ting in, and, as he went on, constantly dressing them with 

 your composition, carefully eradicating all the canker* lean 

 now safely say, that they are as free from canker as any trees 

 I ever saw, and full of fruit-bearing wood, many of them 

 brought into excellent form, and all of them, except some 

 few which died in the summer, promising to make verv useful 

 and profitable trees ; so that if I had occasion to new stock my 

 walls, I shculd as willingly purchase another such lot as to 

 buy regular trained trees from a nurserv. Provided the roots 

 are good, I am convinced from experience, that the older the 

 tree the more profitable it will be, as in the case of the trees 

 above described ; all the voung shoots are covered with blos- 

 som buds in great profusion. 



The following is the list of the trees, and the aspects of 

 the walls on which they are planted, 



19 Peach and Nectarine Trees on a new wall by the hot- 

 house. East aspect. 

 16 do. . , do. .... on another, East aspect. 

 19 do. . . do. .... on the same aspect. 



5 do. . , do on a South aspect. 



2 do. , , do on another South wall. 



4 do on another South wall. 



65 in all. 



