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IX. On a Successful Mode of treating Fruit Trees, practised 

 by Mr. Charles Harrison, Gardener to James Stuart 

 Wortle y, Esq. M. P. F. H. S, 8?c. of Worthy Hall near 

 Sheffield, in Yorkshire. By George Henry Noehden, 

 LL.D. F.L.S. fyc. Vice-Secretary. 



Read January 6, 1818. 

 There are, perhaps, few gardens, in England, where fruit 

 trees, especially Peaches and Nectarines, are cultivated with 

 more success, than in that of James Stuart Wortle y, Esq. 

 of Wortley Hall, in Yorkshire. The quantity of fruit that 

 has been produced by the method, practised therefor several 

 years past, is spoken of by those, who have seen it, as very 

 uncommon ; and even in the last season, when fruit generally 

 failed every where else, the produce of Mr. Wortle y's gar- 

 den was considerable. Nor is the quality of the fruit infe- 

 rior to that of any other garden, so that, altogether, the 

 mode of treatment, by which such plentiful crops are almost 

 invariably obtained, must be excellent. The merit of it 

 is, by Mr. Wortley, entirely attributed to his gardener, 

 whose name (Charles Harrison) was mentioned upon a 

 former occasion, when I had the honour of laying some in- 

 formation, upon this subject, before the Society * My at- 

 tention was again drawn to it, this autumn, by what I 

 accidentally heard of the produce of that garden : and find- 

 ing myself at no great distance from the spot, I determined 

 to visit it, for the purpose of ascertaining the truth of the 

 reports that had reached me, and of enquiring, as an 



* See Vol. II. page 13. 



