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Injured trees in Kenfington gardens, to which it had been ap- 

 plied, in experiments of various kinds, for upwards of feven 

 preceding years ; and, after having, by a very full enquiry, 

 ftricVinveftigation, and the moft minute attention, fatisfied 

 their minds in every particular, they reported to the Lords of 

 the Treafury the refult of their examination, exprefhng their 

 unanimous opinion and conviction, that " The Compofition 

 was a difcovery which might be rendered highly beneficial 

 both to individuals and the public." That Report, and alfo 

 a Letter previoufly written to the Committee by the Com- 

 mifiioners of the Land Revenue, of which I have been 

 favoured with copies, are, for the further information of the 

 Public, inferted in the Appendix % 



Having been thus honoured by the unanimous approbation 

 of perfons fo refpectable for their rank, character, and know- 

 ledge, I proceeded to exert myfelf in making various additional 

 trials and experiments, to enable me to give farther proofs 

 of the efficacy of my Compofition, in reftoring. the powers of 

 vegetation to trees fo far decayed as to be of no value as 

 timber, but which, from their fituation as a ikreen, or as com- 

 pofmg part of a general uniform appearance in the Royal 

 gardens, it became a defirable object to preferve. Nor were 

 my endeavours lefs fuccefsful in this fubordinate experiment, 

 than they had been in thofe which were directed by circum- 

 fiances of fuperior intereft ; for I had the very great fatisfac- 

 tion to find, that, in confequence of my treatment of trees in 

 that ftate of decay which has juft been fpecified, a few years' 

 growth has filled up unfightly chafms, and reftored that uni- 

 formity to their local pofition, which young plants fet in their 

 places would not have accomplished in a long courfe of fuc- 

 ceffive years. 



* See No. V. of the Appendix, 



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