292 OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, &c. 



The Report of the Committee having been laid before his 

 Majefty, in confideration of the great utility and advantage 

 which muft arife to the country at large from the ufe of this 

 Compofition, his Majefty was mo ft gracioufly pleafed to order 

 a reward to be given to the author, for making known to the 

 public the materials of which it is compofed, with the method 

 of preparing it, as well as the mode of its application ; and, 

 in order to diffufe the benefits of this difcovery throughout 

 the kingdom, an advertifement * has been inferted in the 

 London Gazette, and in molt of the town and country news- 

 papers. 



The very great importance to this country of fecuring a 

 continued fucceflion of good, healthy, and well-growing 

 foreft-trees, producing found, unblemifhed timber, for Sup- 

 plying the various wants of the public, muft be evident to 

 every man's reflection ; nor need it be obferved, that num- 

 berlefs large trees, in the woods, parks, and forefts, of this 

 kingdom, are, from various caufes, rendered unfit for ufe, and 

 the timber fo much damaged as to occafion a confiderable 

 diminution in its value. This evil arifes, in fome inftances, 

 from unfkilful management, and in others from external ac- 

 cidents; among which are, the ruinous effects of hurricanes 

 and high winds, when the trees are generally left, in their 

 wounded and disfigured ftate, to the accelerated operations 

 of inevitable decay. It alfo not unfrequently happens, that 

 the heirs of large eftates, on coming to the poffeffion of them, 

 order great numbers of trees to be promifcuoufly felled, be- 

 fore they have attained a ftate of maturity, without paying 

 the leaft attention to provide a fucceflion of young trees to 

 fupply their place ; by fuch inexcufable negligence de- 



* See No. VI. of the Appendix, 



feating 



