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the foregoing Treatise u favourably received by the 

 Public, another^ on Fru it-Trees, ivill fuddenly follovu, prin- 

 cipally ivritte^i a good many years ago, and before any part of 

 this ivas farther advanced than Notes taken from the different 

 effeBs of different pra6lices. What is meant to fucceed, ivas 

 founded during very extenfive practice, and the refult of a great 

 variety of annually repeated experiments and obfervations for a- 

 bove tivefity years ; during ivhich time, fortune ivas favourable, 

 and liberally afforded all the aids neceffary to make the fullefl and 

 mofl accurate enquiries into the nature of that fubjecl, being pro- 

 vided vuith a coifiderable extent of ground in the happiefl fitu- 

 ation this country ivill admit, and a greater variety of the better 

 kinds of foil than I have ever knoivn in that extent. Thefe 

 favourable opportunities ivere not for forae time given in vain : 

 A great number of ivall, efpalier, and fandard Fruit-trees, ivere 

 planted out — for all the different purpofes, and in all the different 

 forms hitherto direHed or praflfed : Hence every opportunity of 

 hiftruclion ivas given, and the ?naterials for the propofed publi- 

 cation ivere colleded. 



From the latenefs of our Spring, and JJoortnefs of our Summer 

 months, ive are, by ifual praBice, incapable of ripening the befl 

 kinds of French Fruits, even on our ivarmef fouth ivalls ; and 

 our common efpalier and fandard kinds, that come late in Au- 

 tumn, are, many of them, frotn ivant of maturity, unhealthy, — and 

 all of them far from perfctlion. 



