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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



1732. Anon. 



1. Essay concerning the best methods of Pruning Fruit- 

 trees, also the Method of Pruning Timber Trees, and also a Dis- 

 course concerning the improvement of the Potatoe. London. 8vo. 



2. The Flower Garden displayed, in above 400 represent- 

 ations of the most beautiful Flowers, with the description and 

 history of each plant, and the method of their culture. 



1732. Furber, Robert, of Kensington, nurseryman, 

 who published a number of separate prints of all the 

 different kinds of fruits grown in this country. His 

 nursery is now in the possession of Messrs. Malcolm 

 and Co. 



1 . Fruits for every month in the year, in fol. 1 2 Plates. 



2. An Introduction to Gardening, or Guide to Gentlemen 

 and Ladies in furnishing their Gardens, being several useful 

 Catalogues of fruits and flowers. Lond. 8vo. 1733. 



1732. More, Sir Thomas. 



A Flower Garden for Gentlemen and Ladies, or the Art of 

 raising Flowersto blow in the depth of winter, also the method 

 of raising Salleting, Cucumbers, &c. at any time of the year. 



1732. Murray, Sir Alexander, of Stanhope, author 

 of some political works relative to Scotland. 



The nature and method of Planting, Manuring, and Diet- 

 ing a Vineyard. 



1735. A Lady. 



Merlin : a Poem ; humbly inscribed to her Majesty. To 

 which is added, The Royal Hermitage, a Poem. Both by a 

 Lady, with several curious representations both of the Cave 

 and Hermitage. 1735. 8vo. 



1735. Anon. 



The Rarities of Richmond : being exaot Descriptions of the 

 Hermitage, and Merlin's Cave, in the Gardens there. 1735. 

 8vo. with his Life and Prophecies. 1736. 



1738. Ellis, William, a farmer at Little Gaddesdon, 

 near Hempstead in Hertfordshire, author of Com- 

 plete Husbandry, and other farming works. 



The Timber Tree improved ; or the best practical methods 

 of improving different lands with proper timber. Lond. Svo. 



1738. Anon. 



The Complete Seedsman's Monthly Calendar, shewing 

 the best and most easy Method for raising and cultivating 

 every sort of Seed belonging to a Kitchen and Flower Garden : 

 ■with necessary Instructions for sowing of Berries, Mast, and 

 Seeds, of Evergreens, Forest Trees, and such as are proper 

 for the improveing of Land. Written at the command of a 

 Person of Honour. Lond. 8vo. 



1739. Anon. 



An Essay upon Harmony ; as it relates chiefly to Situation 

 and Building. 8vo. 1739. 



1739. Trowel, Samuel. 



A new Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening. 



1740. Gray, Christopher, a nurseryman at Ful- 

 ham; a correspondent with many of the eminent 

 botanists of his time, and the first who received the 

 magnolia grandiflora from America, and propa- 

 gated it extensively. 



A Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs which are prepared for 

 sale by Christopher Gray, Nurseryman at Fulham. 

 1744. Anon. 



Adam's Luxury and Eve's Cookery, or the Kitchen Garden 

 displayed. 8vo. 



2. Curious Experiments in Gardening ; modes of Propaga- 

 tion, &c. illustrated by woodcuts. 12mo. 1730. 



1744. Watson, William, M. D. F. R. S. was born in 

 London, in 1715, educated at Merchants-taylors' 

 school, and served his time to an apothecary. He 

 made discoveries in electricity, for which he ob- 

 tained the Copley medal, and was honored with 

 the degree of doctor in physic by two German uni- 

 versities. He died May 10. 1787. Besides papers in 

 the Philosophical Transactions and the London 

 Medical Observations, he wrote An Account of 

 Experiments on inoculating for the Small-pox. 



1. On the Culture of Mushrooms. 



2. Account of the Remains of John Tradescant's Botanic 

 Garden at Lambeth. 



3. Account of the Bishop of London's Garden at Fulham. 



1746. Stephenson, David, M. A. author of J New 

 Mechanical Practice of Physic. 



Gentleman's Gardener's Director of Plants, Flowers, and 

 Trees; with a Garden Kalendar. Lond. 1746. 8vo. 



1747. Anon. 



The Compleat Florist, 8vo. It consists of 100 copper-plates 

 and flowers, colored and plain. 



1748. Anon. 



A Dialogue upon the Gardens of Lord Viscount Cobhanri, at 

 Stowe in Berks. 8vo. 



1749. Dickson, James and Co., nurserymen and 

 seedsmen, Edinburgh. 



Catalogue of Hot-house, Green-house, Hardy, and Herba- 

 ceous Plants, Flowering and Evergreen Shrubs, Fruit and 

 Fruit Trees. Edinb. Svo. An enlarged edition in 1796, 

 enumerating in alphabetical order all the plants described in 

 the Hortus Kewensis. 



1750. Bickham, George. 



The Beauties of Stowe, with cuts, Svo. 



1752. Anon. 



An Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens at Pekin. 

 Svo. 



1753. Anon. 



The Kitchen and Flower Garden complete, in four sheets. 

 1753. Coventry, Francis, was born in Cambridge- 

 shire, and educated at the Magdalen-college, Cam- 

 bridge, where he took his master's degree in 1752, 

 and entered into orders. He died in 1759, having 



just before been presented to the donative of Edge- 

 ware. He wrote Penshurst, a poem in Dodsley's 

 collection, and a poetical epistle to the honorable 

 Wilmot Vaughan. 



Strictures on the Absurd Novelties introduced in Garden- 

 ing, and a humourous Description of Squire Mushroom's 

 villa. (Published in the World, a periodical work, No. XV. 

 April 12. 1753.) 



1753. Rocque, Bartholomew, a florist of Walham 

 Green ; author of some agricultural works : a great 

 advertiser of grasses; sowed mixtures in his grounds, 

 and sold the turf at so much per square foot to pro- 

 pagate from ; extolled the burnet and lucern, parti- 

 cularly the former : patronised by the Duke of 

 Cumberland. Switzer speaks of a similarly named 

 person, probably the father, who had a vineyard 

 planted in a common field-garden, from which he 

 made wine for thirty years ; and although the 

 ground was flat, the wine was as good as that of Or- 

 leans and Auxerre. 



A Treatise on the Hyacinth ; containing the manner ot 

 cultivating that Flower, on the experience lately made by 

 the most eminent Florists in Holland ; translated from the 

 Dutch. Lond. 1755. 8vo. 



1754. Justice, James, Esq., F. R. S., one of the 

 principal clerks of session, or civil court of law, in 

 Scotland. His father was a merchant, and dealing 

 with the Dutch, imported flower-roots, which it has 

 been said first gave the subject of this memoir a 

 taste for gardening. He had a villa and large gar- 

 den at Crichton, near Dalkeith, where he finally 

 spent his fortune, in gardening pursuits, and was 

 obliged to dispose of the property. Here, he prac- 

 tised gardening for thirty years : went twice to Hol- 

 land to study the culture of bulbs, and also visited 

 Italy ; and " satisfied the most learned societies in 

 Britain of his practice and knowledge of the culture 

 of the nicest flowers, and of plants, both exotic and 

 indigenous, which adorn our British gardens. The 

 Ananas," he says (1754), " though now in many gar- 

 dens, were first brought to fruit in Scotland by me ; 

 I can with truth affirm, that no person in this coun- 

 try bestowed more liberality upon improvements in 

 gardening than I did, for the truth of which I can 

 appeal to many of my countrymen." He died about 

 1762 or 3. 



1. The Scots Gardener's Director. By James Justice. 

 Edinb. 8vo. 



2. A new edition, entitled, The British Gardener's Director, 

 chiefly adapted to the Climate of the Northern Counties : 

 directing the necessary works in the Kitchen, Fruit, and 

 Pleasure Gardens, and in the Nursery, Green-house, and 

 Stove. By James Justice, F.R.S., one of the principal Clerks 

 of Session. Edinburgh, 1764. 8vo — The Advertisement, dated 

 September 1763, sets forth, that the first impression being sold 

 off, the author set about correcting mistakes, and making 

 additions ; but that his death deprived the world of his after- 

 labors, which the memorandums and notes left behind him 

 gave room to think he intended to have laid before the pub- 

 lic. — This is an original and truly valuable work, founded 

 upon reflection and experience. 



3. An edition in 1764, arranged as a Monthly Kalendar, 

 and very different from any of the others. 



1754. R S , gentleman. 



The Gardener's Pocket Book, or Country Gentleman's Re- 

 creation ; being the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower-Garden, dis- 

 played in Alphabetical Order. 



1755. Hill, John, M.D, a miscellaneous writer, 

 was the son of a clergyman, and born about 1716. 

 He served his time to an apothecary in Westminster, 

 and in that situation studied botany, which procured 

 him the patronage of the Duke of Richmond and 

 Lord Petre, who employed him in their gardens. 

 In 1746 he translated the tract of Theophrastus On 

 Gems; which was followed hy A General Natural 

 History, in 3 vols, folio. He next engaged in com- 

 piling a supplement to Chamber's Cyclopedia ; and 

 at the same time published a periodical paper called 

 The Inspector. Having obtained a doctor's de- 

 gree from St. Andrew's, he endeavored to get 

 elected into the Royal Society; but being disap- 

 pointed, he attacked that learned body, first in a 

 pamphlet, and next in a quarto volume, written 

 with asperity and acuteness. His facility in writing 

 was very great, and there was hardly a popular sub- 

 ject on which he did not exercise his pen, so that in 

 some years he is said to have realised fifteen hundred 

 pounds. He also gained considerably by quack me- 

 dicines, and was much encouraged by the Earl of 

 Bute, under whose auspices he published A System 

 of Botany, in 26 vols, folio; for which he received 

 the order of Vasa from the King of Sweden. He 

 died Nov. 22. 1775. Besides the works already men- 

 tioned he wrote some novels and farces. Hill had a 

 dispute with Garrick, and another with Woodward 

 the comedian ; the former answered him in an epi- 

 gram, and the latter in a pamphlet, with this motto 

 from Shakespeare : " I do remember an apothecary 

 culling of simples." This alluded to a story that 



