Book I. 



BRITISH WORKS ON GARDENING. 



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out in the fields all night. This gave Cowley the 

 fever, which carried him off." He disliked women, 

 and was fond of retirement in idea, and pants after 

 it in his poems ; but, according to Dr. Johnson, was 

 unhappy when he had attained his wishes. 



Plantarum Herborum, Florum, et Sylvarum, Lond. 1662. 

 Svo. 



1664. Blake, Stephen. 



The complete Gardener's Practice, 4to. Lond. 



1665. Hughes, William. 



1. The Complete Vineyard; or, an excellent way for the 

 planting of Vines, and ordering of Wines and Wine-presses, 

 according to the German and French manner. Lond. 1670. 

 Svo. 



2. The American Physician, or a Treatise of the Roots, 

 Plants, Trees, &c, growing in the English Plantations ; with 

 a Discourse on the Cocoa Tree, and the ways of making 

 Chocolate. Lond. 1672. 12mo. 



3. The Flower Garden ; how most Flowers are ordered, 

 increased, &c. Lond. 1672. 12mo. 



1665. Rea, John, gent. He seems to have been a 

 professional gardener, and to have given plans for 

 laying out grounds. 



Flora, or a complete Florilege, furnished with all requisites 

 belonging to a Florist. Lond. 1665. fol. with cuts. 



1666. Beale, Dr. John, an ingenious English divine 

 and philosopher, was born in Herefordshire, 1603, 

 died 1683. ' 



1. Experiments and Observations on Vegetation and the 

 Running of the Sap, &c. (Phil. Trans.iG69. Abr. i. p. 301.) 



2. The Connection of certain Parts of the Tree with those 

 of the Fruit, (lb. 1669. p. 334.) 



3. Remarks on the Vinetum Britannicum. 



4. Agrestick Observations and Advertisements. 



1666. Rose, John, gardener to Charles II. at St. 

 James's. 



The English Vinevard vindicated, and the way of making 

 wine in Franoe. Lond. 12mo. 1690. Svo. First printed 

 with Evelyn's French Gardener, in 1690. 



1668. 'Worlidge, John, gent. 



1. Svstema Agricultural ; the Mystery of Husbandry dis- 

 covered. By J. W. (John Worlidge) gent. Lond. 1668. fol. 



2. The Art of Gardening. Lond. 1700. 8vo. 



1672. Brope, Francis, B. D., a native of Cumner 

 in Berkshire, where his father was vicar, and his 

 brother a physician. Francis died at Oxford, and 

 this work was published after his death by his 

 brother, and dedicated to Lord Windham, who is 

 stated to have a fine orchard at Brackley. 



A short and sure Guide to the Practice of Raising and 

 Ordering of Fruit Trees. Oxford, 12mo. 



1675. Cotton, Charles, Esq., an English poet, born 

 in Staffordshire in 1630 ; author of a number of po- 

 litical works, memoirs, poems, &c, and editor of 

 Walton's Angler; died 1687. 



The Planter's Manual of Raising, Planting, and Cultivat- 

 ing all Sorts of Fruit Trees. Lond. 8vo. 



1676. Cooke, Moses, gardener to the Earl of Essex 

 at Cashioburv. Evelyn in his Diary mentions him 

 as a skilful aftist in the mechanical part of garden- 

 ing, not ignorant in mathematics, and with some 

 pretensions to astrology. He afterwards became a 

 partner with Eucre, Field, and London, in the 

 Brompton Park Nursery. 



1. The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving 

 Forest Trees. By Moses Cooke, Lond. 4to. 



2. The Art of making Cider, published in Evelyn's works. 



1677. Lawrence, Anthony. 



Nurseries, Orchards, Profitable Gardens, and Vineyards en- 

 oouraged. Lond. 4to. 



1681. Langford, T. 



1. Plain and full instructions to raise all Sorts of Fruit 

 Trees that prosper in England ; with Directions for making 

 Liquors of several Sorts of Fruit. Lond. 1681. Svo. 



2. The Practical Planter of Fruit Trees. Lond. 1681. 8vo. 



3. Systemae Agriculture ; being the Mystery of Husbandry 

 discovered. Lond. 16S1. fol. 



1682. Meager, Leonard. 



1. English Gardener ; or, a Sure Guide to Young Planters 

 and Gardeners. Lond. 1683. 8vo. 



2. New Art of Gardening ; with the Gardener's Almanack. 

 Lond. 1697. 8vo. 



3. The Mystery of Husbandry. Lond. 1699. 12mo. 



1683. Gilbert, Samuel, author of Fons Sanitatis ; 

 or, the Healing Spring at Willowbridge in Stafford- 

 shire. 



1. The Florist's Vade Mecum. Lond. 12mo. 



2. The Gardener's Almanack. By Sam. Gilbert, Phileremus. 

 In this small book is a particular description of the Roses 

 cultivated in the English gardens at that period, and very 

 accurately described. 



1683. Read, John, gardener to Sir George Mac- 

 kenzie of Rosehaugh in Aberdeenshire, one of the 

 earliest Scotch gardening authors. 



The Scots Gardener ; whereunto is annexed, the Gardener's 

 Kalendar. Edin. 1683, 4to. 



1684. Bobart, Jacob, curator of the botanic garden 

 at Oxford. 



Effects of the Great Frost on Trees and other Plants. (Phil. 

 Tram. 1684. Abr. iii. page S9.) 



1685. Temple, Sir William, a statesman of de- 

 served eminence, and a miscellaneous writer, was 

 born in London in 1628. He was ambassador for 

 manv years at the court of Holland, and there ac- 



quired his knowledge and taste in gardening. He 

 introduced some good sorts of grapes and other fruits, 

 and one variety of nectarine still bears his name ; he 

 had an excellent walled garden at Sheen in Surrey, 

 in which his contemporary Evelyn says his trees were 

 most exactly trained. He had another seat at Moor 

 Park near Farnham in Surrey, where he died in 

 1698, and his heart, by his desire, was buried in a 

 silver urn under a sundial in the garden. He was 

 warmly attached to gardening and retired leisure, 

 and declares one of the greatest pleasures in life to 

 be " such a degree of liberty, as to be able to walk 

 at one's own pace, and one's own way." 



Upon the Gardens of Epicurus ; or, of Gardening in the year 

 1685. (In his works, vol. i. Miscellanea.) 



1685. Anon. 



The Complete Planter and Ciderist. Svo. 



1691. Gibson, J. 



A short Account of several Gardens near London, as viewed in 

 1691. (Archa»loxia Britannka, vol. xii. p. 181.) 



1699. Facio, Nicholas, of Duilhier, F.R.S., a ma- 

 thematician, was born in Switzerland in 1664. He 

 studied at Geneva, after which he settled at Utrecht 

 as a tutor, but was there suspected of Spinosism. In 

 1687 he came to England, where he taught mathe- 

 matics, was tutor to the Marquis of Tavistock, and 

 had a patent for jewel-watches ; but when the 

 French prophets made their appearance, he joined 

 them in all their extravagancies, for which he stood 

 in the pillory in 1707. He died at Worcester in 1753. 

 Some of his papers are in the British Museum. 



Fruit Walls improved by inclining them to the Horizon ; or 

 a Way to build Walls for Fruit Trees, whereby they may re- 

 ceive more Sunshine and Heat than ordinary. By a Member 

 of the Roval Society. Lond. 4to. With Plates by Gribelin. 



This is "a very ingenious and scientific work, in which the 

 advantages of receiving the sun's rays at right angles are ma- 

 thematically and optically demonstrated. 



1699. London and Wise, nurserymen and garden- 

 architects, and the most eminent in their line at 

 the end of the seventeenth and beginning, of the 

 eighteenth century. George London was appren- 

 tice to Rose, the royal gardener, and sent by him to 

 France to study the beauties of Versailles. On his 

 return he was made head gardener to Dr. Compton, 

 Bishop of London, and at the beginning of the 

 revolution, superintendant of the royal gardens, 

 at a salary of 200/. a-year, and page of the back- 

 stairs to Queen Mary. Of Wise little is known, 

 excepting that he laid out grounds ; and in parti- 

 cular Blenheim. Switzer says, London was a man 

 of singular activity; and when on a tour of the 

 places at which he had concern, used to ride, at an 

 average, sixty miles a-day, which at last brought on 

 a fever, that occasioned his decease after a fort- 

 night's illness, in 1717. 



The Complete Gardener: or Directions for Cultivating and 

 right Ordering of Fruit Gardens and Kitchen Gardens. With 

 the Gardener's Kalender, directing what is to be done every 

 Month in the Year. By Monsieur de la Quintiney. Now 

 compendiously abridged, and made of more use ; with very 

 considerable Improvements. By George London, and Henry 

 Wise. To whicn is prefixed, an Address to the Nobility and 

 Gentry. By J. Evelyn, Esq. Lond. 1717. 8vo. 

 1704. Anon. 



Dictionarium Rusticum ; or, a Dictionary of Husbandry, 

 Gardening, Trade, and Commerce. 2 vols. 8vo. with Cuts. 



1706. Gentil. 



Solitary or Carthusian Gardener ; being Dialogues between 

 a Gentleman and Gardener. Lond. Svo. Most probably a 

 translation from the French. 



1707. Fleetwood, William, successively Bishop of 

 St. Asaph and Ely, and much admired as a popular 

 preacher, was born in London in 1656, published a 

 great number of sermons, and other works, and died 

 in 1723. 



Curiosities of Nature and Art in Husbandry and Garden- 

 ing. Lond. 8vo. 



1707. Mortimer, John, author of some tracts on 

 religious education. His works on husbandry were 

 translated into Swedish, and published in Stockholm 



in 1727. 



The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of managing and 

 improving of Land. 



1712. Addison, Joseph, was born at Milston in 

 Wiltshire, 1672, educated at Salisbury, Litchfield, 

 and Oxford ; he addressed some verses to Dryden 

 at the age of twenty-two ; obtained a pension of 

 300/. a-year in 1699 ; travelled on the continent for 

 three years ; returned and assisted Steele in the 

 Tatler and Spectator; married the Countess-Dow- 

 ager of Warwick in 1716 ; became secretary of 

 state ; resigned on a pension of 1500/. a-year, and 

 died in 1719 at Holland House, Kensington, leaving 

 only one daughter, who died unmarried in 1797. 



1. On the Causes of the Pleasures of the Imagination, 

 arising from the Works of Nature, and their Superiority over 

 those of Art. (Published in the Spectator, No. 114.) 



2. Description of a Garden in the Natural Style, ilbul. 

 No. 477.) 



