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PREFACE.


NUMEROUS are the Treatises written on the present subject; few of them, however, have fairly resulted from Practice, and therefore it is little to be wondered, that they have been found erroneous and deficient, and liable to mislead in the most essential particulars.

The following sheets are intended to exhibit the cultivation of fruit-trees on an improved, and, at the same time, on a concise plan, according to the true successful practice of our most eminent Gardeners, in raising and forwarding every species of Wall-Trees, Espaliers, and Standards, to their full perfection of bearing.