PREFACE. 



Tl O the many Publications that have appeared on the Manage-, 

 ment of Fruit and Forell Trees, it may be thought fuperiiuous to 

 add ; and, indeed, fo little am I accuftomed to the practice of 

 writing, that I feel no fmall degree of reluctance in offering any 

 thing to public infpecllon ; but an entire conviction of the advan- 

 tages to be derived from the obfervations and directions contained 

 In the following pages, joined to the importunity of many of 

 the moil competent judges, has determined me to make my 

 method of pruning and training, and the fuccefs attending it, as 

 public as poffible. 



Having long obferved the fcanty crops both on wall and 

 flandard trees that have followed the ufual mode of pruning and 

 training, I was led to make many experiments, in order to dis- 

 cover, if it were poffible, a more fuccef-ful method. Nor have 

 my endeavours been in vain ; for, after following a new mode for 

 feveral years, I can with pleafure affirm, that the quantity of fruit 

 has been remarkably increafed, and the quality greatly improved. 



I have in the following pages ftated many facts, to evince the 

 utility of the Compofition recommended, and to induce others to 

 make a fair trial, which may be done at a very trifling expence. 



I only requeft of thofe who entertain any doubts, that they will 

 make choice of two trees of the fame kind, as near as may be in 

 the fame ftate of health or decay, and having equal advantages 

 of foil and Situation ; let the dead, decayed, and injured parts be 

 & n't) ] > cut 



