Burke Manuscript: Page 001
 
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[loose sheet inside front cover]
In that garden were grown by that energetic Scot, William Wilson, Cabbage (after
his first effort at the Bricks, now the Star and Garter locality) thousands,
aye millions, of quicks, thorns, for fencing purposes, forest and fruit trees of every
description, which were sold and distributed all over the land, and to day represent some
of the splendid and massive shade and shelter trees that have changed Canterbury from its
nakedness to a comfortable and beauteous scene. Some have sneered and jeered at William
Wilson, but, with all his failings, he did yeoman service for his adopted country, and
those who knew the wreck of the sturdy frame, can only form an idea of the energetic man
of the fifties.
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