Some years later, the eminent Arboricultural author, John Loudon, writing on the subject of the relative ages and sizes of trees, wrote to the Duke for permission to view his Waterloo beeches.
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory
I also related my first experiment in the Arboricultural line, when I cut from two thrifty rows of young cherry-trees any quantity of what I supposed to be 'suckers,' or 'sprouts,' and was thereafter informed by my gardener that I had cut off all his grafts!
"The-Life-of-Phineas-T-Barnum"
Benton, Joel