OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES. 



311. 



gagement that muft inevitably call me for a time from his 

 Majefty's fervice in his Royal Gardens at Kenfington ; but 

 {hould his Majefty be graeioully pleafed to think my fervices 

 would be productive of a national good, and will condefcend 

 to permit me to be abfent, I fhall with the greateft pleafure 

 and alacrity engage in the undertaking. 



I beg permiffion to lay before your Honourable Board feve- 

 ral fpecimens of parts of trees which have been injured in a 

 manner fimilar to thofe you have alluded to ; others which 

 have been healed by the method I have before mentioned. 

 But the moft effectual means of demonftrating the utility of 

 this application, is the many fruit and for eft trees now 

 growing in his Majefty' s Royal Gardens at Kenfmgton, which? 

 I fhall be happy to- {hew you. 



Your Honourable Board, confidering the fhortnefs of time,, 

 will, I truft, make every allowance for any inaccuracy in this* 

 anfwer to the letter you favoured me with, and permit me to 

 fubfcribe myfelf, 



With the greateft refpecl,, 



Your moft obedient 



Humble Servant 



WILLIAM FORSYTH,. 



To the Honourable the 



Commissioners of the Land Revenue,- 



