April 20, 1876. ) 



JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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notice of whose efforts we are now about to devote a portion 

 of our columns. He has told his motive and his course of 

 proceeding in the two following sentences : — " As the amnse- 

 njent of gardening is innocent, and the profits arising from it 

 are intended for the glory of God and the good of mankind, I 

 think I cannot be cenanred for poisuing this bent," 



" When a boy I was continually studying the culture of 

 things, but the true sweets I never tasted till I entered the 

 University." 



He then became more fully convinced that gardeners know 

 nothing of theory, and some gentlemen know theory but are 

 not practical. To instinct them in that which they lacked 



he determined to make an effort. We will trace his biography 

 as well as we are able. 



He was bom in 1724, and his father was probably the rector 

 of Church Langton, tor the living has been in the possession 

 uf the family for centuries. Of his youth we have no memo- 

 rials, but we have the record that in 1751 he began cultivating 

 the acquaintance of the most noted seedsmen, nurserymen, and 

 gardeners ; found their plants, trees, &e., too few, consequently 

 opened a foreign correspondence. Meanwhile, whilst thus col- 

 lecting specimens, he commenced preparing a seminary and 

 nursery, and completed this by the spring of 1753. He then 



obtained more land and planted 20,000 young trees. He was 

 too hasty, and the ladies who let him have the land destroyed 

 the trees. He procured other land, and in a year or two his 

 nursery at Tur Langton was established, and by 1757 his large 

 plantations at Gumley. So energetic had he been that his 

 plantations and nurseries in 1758 were valued at £10,000. 

 He then had nearly 50 varieties of Peaches ; Nectarines, 20 ; 

 Apricots, 12 ; Cherries, 30 ; Pears, CO ; Apples, 50 ; Plums, 50 ; 

 Vines, 40; Figs, 10; Gooseberries, 30; besides Currants, 

 Quinces, Medlars, Walnuts, Nuts, <t-c. 

 That year at Oxford he published his first work' on: the 



