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ftation, are necefiary to its fecurity; and it » 
need not be added, that without indepen- 
dence, we may foots | in vain for confiftency 
of conduét, cr real dignity of character. 
If, inftead or the ence ‘< more ufe- 
fully,” our author had faid /efs burtfully, 
the fentence wou} not have been liable to 
mifeonftruction ; and trivial as the altera- 
tion may feem, the effecis pone by = 
among many who admire, and who juttly 
admire, Mrs. Wollfoncraft, would not 
have been trivial. That ‘ady will, I hope, 
excufe the liberty I have taken in thefe re- 
marks, and will fee, that if fhe had not 
been confidered as a writer of confiderable 
eminence, and whofe works are likely to 
produce effeéts beyond the amufement of 
a leifure hour, the motive would have 
een wanting that has given occafion to 
them, from her real admirer, 
April 19, 1796- CHRISTIANA. 
SEE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
oe is a fact, that in the gardea of Tho- 
Ae eIhas Simpfon, efq. of Newcafile upon 
Tyne, at his villa, near Elfwick, the fol- 
lowing number of neétarines and peaches 
were produced laft feafon, from trees not 
more than eight feet {quare, in a ftate of 
full_maturity,, and of a moft delicious 
flavour, by a new method which he has 
adopted of cultivating this fine and jufily 
admired fruit : 
From one Royal George peach, 
the tree 8 years oid, 261 
One do. of do. the tree 8 years 
old, 
One do. of early Newington, 
the tree g years old, 
One do. noblifec, the tree 8 
201 
2290 
years olds as 
One do. of do. the tree 8 years 
old, y rf 5 ah 

From 5 trees 985 peaches 

of a full fize, many of them nine inches 
in circumference. 
From one neétarine, the tree 
8 years old, 148 
One red Roman do. the tree 
9 years old, 201 

From 2trees 349 ne€tarines 

of a full fize, fome of them eight inches 
im circumference. 
‘Lhe gardener, in thining the fruit, took 
New Method of Improving Fruit Trees. 
[May 
off 2020 peaches, and so neétarines, and 
the trees are now full of health and vigours 
promifing an equally luxuriant produce in 
the enfuing feafon. 
The method of cultivation which Mr. 
Si'mpfon made ule of, and which he feels 
much happinefs in making as extenfively 
ae as poifible, is to plant the trees — 
vithin frames fourteen feet long, and 
aie feet broad, with three flides of 
glafs (much the fame as thofe ufed in 
hot-beds) on a level plain of rich loamy 
foil, and extending them from the root on 
a platform of wood with lathes, to anvele- 
vation of three feet five inches, which is 
confidered as the beft for receiving the 
beneficial rays of the fun; by this, a 
vacant {pace is formed between the tree 
and the earth, calculated to prevent any 
noxious vapours, or infeéts, doing a pre- 
judice to the tree or its fruit; great care 
muft be taken in fixing the frames clofe to 
the earth, that the froft or cold blafts may 
not do harm; fo foon as the bloffoms ~ 
make their appearance, the glafs flides 
muft be put on, and the tree muft have 
nearly the fame treatment as a meion-bed, 
only with this diference, that in ferene 
weather, when the fun fhines without 
froft, the glaffes are taken off, and alfo, at 
other times, to make ufe of any genial 
eee fhower, when neceffary. 
The plan of the garden was eftablifhed 
before Mr. Simpfon planted- his’ trees 5. 
but it is fituared in a moft favourable 
afpeét, being fome few points to the fouth-— 
eaft; from “which, the moft fecundating | 
rays "of the fun, >on his rifing, greateft ai- 
titude, or in certain degrees of ae decien= 
fion, are cheerfully imbibed by the fruit, 
which, when in full fize, and approach- 
ing to maturity, are in a pofition of fat- 
tening’“in the fun (to make ufe of the ex- 
prefiion of an old gardener) and feem to - 
ftretch themlelves out to folicit his melli-— 
fiuous influence. : 
HORTULANUS, 
Newerfile, Avril 2, 1796. i 
EEE EEE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T° thofe who think that the caufe of 
diffent from the eftablifhment is ma-- 
terially conneéted with the intereft of 
truth and freedom, both civil and reli- 
gious, and who are alfo of opinion, that 
this caufe depends a great deal for its fup- 
port upon the talents, charaéter, and con- 
duct of diffenting minifters, the declining 
ftate of the feminaries, inftituted with a 
view to their education, muft be matter of 
ferious 
