A QUAINT OLD BOOK ON UORTICULTUUE. 



set your trees neither in dung nor barren earth." Deep trenching is coniinanch^d, and many 

 curious and just remarks are made regarding "soyles," moisture, and other similar topics, 

 all treated with what we arc fain to consider as modern exporiunccs. 



The style in which tlie garden and grounds are to be laid out, will excite a smile. A cut 

 represents the old manor-house at the top, with a broad walk leading down the centre ; at 

 the first cross walk is a fountain, and at the second and last are stone steps ; the whole is 

 in squares, and at the side of the page are the directions. The reader will remark that the 

 distance recommended between trees is sixty feet 1 A garden-knot is simply a mathe- 

 matical flower bed. 



Then we have chapters "of Fences," "of Sets," "of the Distances of Trees," "of the 

 Placing of Trees," " of Grafting," " of the Right Dressing of Trees," with a portrait of espa- 

 lier fruit-trees, &c., and a long pole, trimmed up to two high branches ! as they still trim in 

 cities, "of Foyling" (manuring), "of Annoyances," which consist of "Gals," not girls, but 

 galls, " Canker, Mosse, Weakues in Setting, Barke Bound, Worme, and Deadly Wounds," 

 with the proper "Remedys." Animals and birds are treated of in the same excellent 

 mode. 



A chapter on the " Age of Trees," and finally, a capital essay on " Gathering and Keeping 

 Fruits," in which we trace the original and very excellent " fruite room" now much em- 

 ployed. 



We are extending this notice beyond our usual limits, but the style and manner are so 

 excellent, and the truths the very same we now insist on, that we must make an extract 

 from page 53, near the close of this very rare and unique fasciculus : — 



" When God had made man after his own image, in a perfect state, and would have him 

 to represent himself in authority, He placed him in Paradise. What was Paradise but a 

 garden of trees and hearbes, full of pleasure, nothing there but delights. * * And whither 

 do men withdraw themselves from the troublesome Afl'ayres of their Estate, being tired with 

 the hearing and judging of litigious Controversies ; choaked (as it were) with the close 

 ayres of their sumptuous buildings, their stomacks cloyed with variety of Banquets, their 

 eares filled and overburthened with tedious discoursings ; whither ? but into their orchards, 

 made and prepared, dressed and destinated for that purpose, to renue and refresh their 

 senses, and to call home over-wearied spirits. Nay it is (no doubt) a comfort to them, to 

 set open their casements into a most delicate garden and orchard, whereby they may not 

 only see that, wherein they are so much delighted, but also to give fresh, sweet, and pleasant 

 ayre to their galleries and chambers. Farewell." 



The work is much applauded by Evelyn in his Sylva. How it ever got to America, and 

 by whose care it has been so wonderfully preserved, with only a thin, paper cover, is a 

 mystery. 



Tlie publisher of the Horticulturist, after considerable inquiry, discovered sufficient black- 

 letter type to set up a page at a time ; the pages were then stereotyped viiih facsimiles of 

 the curious old wood-cuts, and the whole work is now reproduced, so as perfectly to resem- 

 ble the original in all respects. He offers it for sale as the greatest curiosity for a horticul- 

 tural library, for one dollar, and an inducement to a little exertion on the part of the friends 

 of the Horticulturist ; it will be forwarded to every person who procures and remits for a club 

 of four or more subscribers, as will be seen in the advertising pages. 



In order to exhibit the style of the book as now reproduced, we insert a stereotyped page, 

 which fortunately happens to be of the same size of those of the Horticulturist; so that those 

 who choose to do so, may bind the work with the present, or the next volume : — 



