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time I was there, the fineft and larger! crops of Grapes that I 

 had ever feen in any forcing houfes. Two houfes, in parti- 

 cular, were covered from top to bottom with fine Grapes?, 

 and the Vines trained in the ferpentine manner. 



John Wedgwood, efq. of Cote Houfe near Rriftol, a gen- 

 tleman who is much attached to gardening and planting, 

 tells me, that he has practifed my mode of pruning and 

 training fruit-trees, particularly Peaches and Nectarines, in 

 his houfes ; and that he is highly pleafed with the method, 

 which has been attended with great fuccefs. 



Lord Frederick Campbell has lately favoured me with a 

 lift of eighty-five fruit-trees, of different kinds, that were 

 headed down, in his gardens at Coomb-bank in Kent, in the 

 years 1798 and 1799; and afterwards trained and pruned 

 according to my method : many of them, before heading 

 down, were in a very cankery, unfruitful fiate, and overgrown 

 with mofs ; thefe are now in a fruitful, healthy, and flou- 

 rifhing condition: fome of the Efpaliers have made {hoots 

 from two to three yards long, and upwards. Thefe trees 

 were cut and prepared by Mr. Williams, who had been for 

 fome time accuftomed to my way of treating fuch trees, and 

 whom I recommended to his Lorduhip as a gardener. Thefe 

 trees are very proper patterns for any gentlemen in the 

 neighbourhood, who wilh to give the Compofition, and 

 method of training and pruning, recommended in this Trea- 

 tife, a fair trial. 



Several fuccefsful trials have alfo been made at the Duke 

 of Dorlet's Seat, at Knowle in Kent, at Hatfield Houfe, the 

 feat of the Marquis of Salifbury, and at a great many other 

 places ; and Experiments are now making at Sir Henry 

 Strachey's, at Rook's Neft, near Godftone, in Surrey. 



Although 



