A

TREATISE

ON THE

CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT

OF

FRUIT TREES;

IN WHICH

A NEW METHOD OF PRUNING AND TRAINING

IS FULLY DESCRIBED.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION OF

"OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, DEFECTS, AND INJURIES,

IN ALL KINDS OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES :"

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

A PARTICULAR METHOD OF CURE,

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF GOVERNMENT.

BY WILLIAM FORSYTH, F.A.S. AND F.S.A.

GARDENER TO HIS MAJESTY AT KENSINGTON

AND ST. JAMES'S, MEMBER OF THE ECONOMICAL SOCIETY

AT ST. PETERSBURGH, &c. &c.

THE SEVENTH EDITION, CORRECTED:

WITH ADDITIONS OF NEW FRUITS, AND REFERENCES TO THEIR
FIGURES; ALSO A CALENDARIAL INDEX.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.

CAMBRIDGE

Royal Albert Benevolent Society.

The Bequest

ОР

MRS. M. E. FROHOCK,

FEB. 1860.

LONDON:
Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.

TO THE KING.

53356 F1

1824

SIRE,

It is now upwards of seventeen years since Your Majesty did me the honour to appoint me Your Gardener at Kensington and St. James's; during which time I have made a great variety of experiments on Fruit and Forest Trees, and introduced the mode of Pruning and Training recommended in the following Treatise.