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felves in afcertaining the utility and benefit that might arife 

 from the application of it to many thoufand valuable trees in 

 his Majefty's woods and forefts, which had received injuries of 

 fuch a kind as, if left to the unaftifted efforts of nature, would 

 occafion a very confiderable diminution in the value and the 

 quality of the timber, and might even terminate in their en- 

 tire ruin*. 



This very attentive and minute examination of the fevera! 

 objects of their inquiry being followed by the cleareft convic- 

 tion of the great public utility which would refult from a 

 general application of the remedy, the Commiffioners were 

 pleafed to make a reprefentation of it to the Lords of his 

 Majefty's Treafury, under whofe fan£lion it was fubmitted to 

 the confideration of the Houfe of Commons by Mr. Rofe, on 

 the 24th of July 1789 ; and, on his motion, an humble 

 Addrefs was prefented by that honourable Houfe to his 

 Majefty on the fubjecl: f . 



In confequence of this Addrefs, a Committee of Members of 

 both Houfes of Parliament undertook, at the inftance of the 

 Lords of the Treafury, to inveftigate the efficacy of my Com- 

 pofition ; for which purpofe, they raoft attentively examined 

 the ftate, condition, and progrefs of cure, of the decayed and 



* Mr. Niehol, of Redbridge, Hants, Purveyor for Portfmouth Dock, informed me,, 

 that the average of the damaged timber brought to that place was never lefs than one 

 fourth of the total quantity of timber brought in annually and not unfrequently it: 

 amounted to a third. If, however, the trees that have received any injuries were pre- 

 pared, and the Compofition applied as direfted in this Treatife, the cavities, or wound?*, 

 would be filled up with new and found wood. And if recent wounds, occafioned by 

 lopping, or breaking off branches, were immediately drafted in a proper manner with the 

 Compofition, the tree would fuftain no injury ; as the wounds would be healed and. 

 covered over with new and found bark in a ihort fpace of time; fo that there would not 

 be found a foot of damaged timber. 

 I See No, IV. of the Appendix. 



injured 



