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INDEX. 



OBSERVATIONS, first trial of the Composition on Forest-Trees, 200. 



Of raising young timber from old roots or stumps, 302, 

 Correspondence with the Commissioners of the Land Re- 

 venue, 207. 



A Letter from the Commissioners to the Noblemen and 

 Gentlemen appointed by Parliament to examine the 

 Experiments in Kensington Gardens, 212. 



Report on the above examination, 214. 



Directions for making and applying the Composition, 217". 



Additional Directions for making and applying the Com- 

 position, and for preparing the Trees, especially hol- 

 low ones, for receiving it, 219. 



Success of several Experiments since publishing the Ob- 

 servations, &c. 223. 



The best method of raising oaks, 225. 



Of planting Chesnuts for Copse-Wood, 226. 



Letters attesting the efficacy of the Composition in ciiffe- 

 rent climates, 228. 

 ORANGE-TREES, directions for heading down, 233. 

 ORCHARD;, its situation, size, and soil, 152. 

 Proper trees, ibid. 



Preparing the ground for planting, 153. 



Planting, 154. 



Of draining a wet soil, 155. 



An annual Wash for trees, ibid. 

 PAPILIO, how to destroy, 184. 

 PEACHES, different sorts of, 15. 



Of the soil, and borders for Peaches, 19, 



Draining a wet soil, 20. 



A sour wet clay, how to treat, ibid. 



Of the choice of Peach-Trees, ibid. 



Preparing the Borders and planting, ibid. 



Heading, topping, pruning, and training, 2|. 



Pruning and training of old trees, 23. 



Of making incisions, ibid. 



The Canker, ibid. 



The superfluous shoots to be rubbed off. 

 Of thinning the fruit, 24. 



The great advantage of using the Cojnposition, ibid. 



Of watering and mulching, ibid. 



Of picking off the leaves, 25. 



To procure a regular succession, ibid. 



