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a Lombardy Poplar, accidentally left in my masters orchard, 

 after being loaded with clay balls, became as pendulous as 

 those of the Weeping Willow * 



I have only to add, that most of the specimens of Apples 

 and Pears produced at our meeting in November and De- 

 cember last by me, and honoured with the encomiums of 

 some of the best judges present, grew upon trees kept low 

 and open in this method. 



* Our President has shown, in the Philosophical Transactions of 1806, the 

 extensive influence of gravitation upon the motion of the sap of plants ; and his 

 experiments perfectly support the author's conclusions.— Seer. 



