MEMOIR OF THE AUTIIOK. 



xxix 



^ " 37 DoMiNicK Street, 2d Ap^il 1830. 



My Dear. Sir, — It is with great regret that I feel 

 myself unable to write you as long a letter as I could 

 wish. Turner'"' and his men arrived here this morning, 

 and intend to sail for Scotland on Monday. Nothing 

 could be more satisfactory than the manner in which they 

 have conducted themselves. I inclose you three of the 

 letters I received from strangers expressing their opinion.f 

 For those among my own friends who have employed 

 them, I can answer myself. I was much amused at the 

 terror which Purdie showed at the idea of coming among 

 the wild Irish, but Turner will be able to give a better 

 account of us to our friends in the Land o' Cakes. I 

 sliall also inclose a few prospectuses of our society, and 

 hope you may be able to do something for us. All our 

 success depends upon our being soon known and made 

 use of as a centre of information. . . . Your atten- 

 tion seems to have been lately turned to trenching and 

 potato culture as preparation. Could you not give us 

 some little communication on that subject, as accurately 

 compared with the T method, which is the other extreme 

 as to expense '? Excuse this hasty line, and believe me 

 most faithfully yours, 



«C. W. H N." 



The society to which reference is made in the above 

 letter, and of which prospectuses were sent to Sir Henry, 

 was entitled the " Foresting Society for Ireland," which 

 seems to have resembled Sir Henry's favourite project of 

 a "society for the improvement of arboriculture exclu- 

 sively," whose institution he has strongly advocated in 



* One of Sir Henry's head men trained at Allanton. 



+ This opinion was highly satisfactory both as regards the system and its 

 results. 



