38 On a Successful Mode of treating Fruit Trees. 



eye witness, into the particulars, relating to the trees in 

 question. I was the more inclined to do so, as I thought 

 some farther intelligence might be necessary, in addition to 

 the account before given, to set the matter in its true light. 

 What was communicated in the Paper alluded to, was chiefly 

 derived from a letter of Mr. Wortley's : what I now shall 

 submit, is the result of my own observation, and of an inter- 

 view I had with the gardener, on the 1st of November of last 

 year. 



It is not a matter of particular importance to specify 

 exactly, what the trees, in Mr. Wortley's garden, have 

 produced : for the fact may be considered as admitted, that 

 their produce has been superior to that of other gardens. 

 To this conclusion, at least, the testimony of many persons 

 seems to point. I will, however, mention Mr. Harrison's 

 numerical statements, as he made them to me, when I saw 

 him, though I do not mean to lay any great stress upon them, 

 in describing his method of managing his fruit trees, beause 

 I think, this will recommend itself to the attention of the 

 intelligent horticulturist, by the principles upon which it is 

 founded, even without the exhibition of those splendid 

 results. The number of Peach and Nectarine trees, in the 

 garden, is altogether thirty -two; and they are trained on 

 brick walls, which are partly provided with flues. From these 

 trees, according to Mr. Harrison's account, eight thousand 

 Peaches and Nectarines were gathered, in the last season ; 

 which crop, though sufficiently large, was much smaller, than 

 what other years had afforded. The greatest, which the 

 trees ever yielded, he estimated at seven thousand dozens, 

 and this he referred to the year before last. 



