Book I. 



BRITISH WORKS ON GARDENING. 



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Hill was excluded from some nobleman '6 gardens 

 for having carried off several valuable plants. 



A short account of his life, writings, and cha- 

 racter was published at Edinburgh in 1779, and his 

 widow, Lady Jane Hill, published An Address to 

 the Public, setting forth the Consequences of his 

 Acquaintance with the Earl of Bute. 1788. 4to. 



1. A Method of raising Trees from the Leaves. By John 

 Hill, M.D. Svo. 1758, under the name of Thomas Barnes. 



2. Eden ; or a complete Body of Gardening. London, fol. 

 Colored plates- 60. 



5. Complete Body of Husbandry, with plates, fol. 



4. The Gardener's New Kalendar. By John Hill, M.D. 

 Lond. with plates. 



5. An Idea of a botanical Garden in England, 1758. 



6. An Account of a Stone, which on being watered pro- 

 duces Mushrooms. London, 175S. Svo. Plates 2. 



7. A Method of producing Double Flowers from Single, 

 by a regular Course of Culture, illustrated with Figures. 

 Lond. 1758. Plates 7- 



8. The Origin and Production of Proliferous Flowers, 

 ■with the Culture at large for raising Double from Single, 

 and Proliferous from the Double. Lond. 1759. Svo. Plates 7. 



9. The Practice of Gardening by T. Perfect, a pupil of 

 Dr. Hill. London. 1759. Svo. 



10. Botanical Tracts. Lond. 1762. Svo. — A title prefixed to 

 pamphlets published at different times. 



11. The Construction of Timber explained by the Micro- 

 soope. 1770. Svo. 



1755. Hitt, Thomas, gardener to Lord Robert 

 Manners, at Bloxholme in Lincolnshire, afterwards 

 a nurseryman in Kent and a designer of gardens. 

 He wrote on husbandry, and the improvement of 

 barren lands in Aberdeenshire, of which county he 

 seems to have been a native. He died about 1770, 



and his papers came into the possession of Mea- 



der, gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, who 

 published from them the Universal Gardener. 



A Treatise on Fruit Trees, Lond. Svo. An original work, 

 valuable for its mode of training trees. 



1756. Anon. 



On the Heat and Cold of Hot-houses. 



1757. Chambers, Sir William ; an eminent archi- 

 tect, was born in Sweden 1726, but his ancestors 

 were of Scottish origin. He was brought to England 

 at the age of two years, and placed in a school at 

 Rippon. His first entrance into public life was in 

 the capacity of supercargo to a Swedish East India 

 ship, in which he made one voyage to China. On 

 his return he quitted the sea, and applied to archi- 

 tecture, under the patronage of Lord Bute, by whose 

 interest he was appointed drawing-master to the 

 late king, then Prince of Wales. His first employ- 

 ment as an architect was in building a villa for Lord 

 Besborough, at Roehampton, after which, he was 

 engaged to lay out the royal gardens at Kew, where 

 he introduced the Chinese ornaments. In 1771 he 

 was honored with the Swedish order of the Polar 

 Star, and in 1775 appointed to conduct the building 

 of Somerset House. He was at this time a fellow of 

 the royal society, and a member of that of anti- 

 quaries ; besides which he held the places of archi- 

 tect to the king, surveyor-general to the board of 

 works, and treasurer of the royal academy. He died 

 in 1796, aged 69. 



1. Designs for Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Ma- 

 chines, and Utensils, engraved from the originals drawn in 

 China; to which is annexed, A Description of their Temples, 

 Houses, Gardens, &c. Lond. 1757. max. fol. 



2. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Perspective Views of 

 the Gardens and Buildings at Kew in Surrey, the seat of her 

 Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Lond. 1763- fol. 1765. 

 fol. 42s. A very splendid work. 



3. Dissertations on Oriental Gardening. London, 1774. 

 4to. 5*. 



1757. Spence, Joseph, D.D., Professor of poetry in 

 the university of Oxford, author of an essay on 

 Pope's works, Crito, and other well known and 

 esteemed works. He was the friend of Lord Wal- 

 pole ; is styled by the latter a man of judgment and 

 taste in gardening. He was born in 1698, and died 

 in 1768. 



Some Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens, &c. By 

 Sir Harry Beaumont. Lond. 8vo. 



1757. Anon., erroneously attributed by Nichols 

 {Lit. Anecdotes) to John Baynes, who died before 

 the poems below were published ; by some to 

 Mason, the author of the English Garden. 



1. An Heroic Epistle to Sir Wm. Chambers. 4to. 



2. An Heroic Postscript. 4to. 1758. 



These poems are ranked among the most spirited satires of 

 the age. 



1757. Tho?npson, John, a commercial gardener at 

 Newcastle upon Tyne. 



1. The distinguishing Properties of a fine Auricula. New- 

 castle. Svo. 



2. The Dutch Florist. Newcastle. 12mo. 1758. 



1758. Hanbury, the Rev. William, rector of Church 

 Langton, Lancashire, died 1778. 



1. An Essay on Planting, and a Scheme to make it con- 

 ducive to the glory of God, and the advantage of Society. Svo. 



2. A complete Body of Planting and Gardening, contain- 

 ing the Natural History, Culture, and Management of Deci- 



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duoiu and Evergreen Forest-trees, &c; the whole forming a 

 complete History of Timber-trees, whether *aised in Forests, 

 Plantations, or Nurseries; as well as a general System of 

 the present Practice of the Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen- 

 Gardens. To be completed in about 140 sixpenny weekly 

 numbers, from December 1769, in two volumes, folio- 



1758. Marsham, Robert, Esq. F.RS., of Stratton, 

 in Norfolk. 



1. Observations on the Growth of Trees. (Phil. Tram. 

 Abr. xi. 320. 1758.) 



2. On the Usefulness of Washing and Rubbing the Stems 

 of Trees to promote their Annual Increase. (lb. xiv. 124. 

 1776.) The same. (lb. xv. 138. 1781.) 



3. Indications of Spring. (lb. xvi. 561. 1789.) 



4. On the Measures of Trees. (lb. xviii. 100. 1797.) 



1759. Barnes, Thomas, a fictitious name adopted 

 by Sir John Hill for his first gardening publication, 

 (See Hill, John, 1755.) 



1759. North, , a nurseryman at Lambeth, on 



the grounds now occupied as a nursery by John 

 Hay. 



1. Treatise on Grasses, and the Norfolk Willow. 



2. Gardener's Catalogue of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, 

 Seeds, &c. Svo. 



1759. Perfect, Thomas, inventor of the new Chinese 

 parterres, a name adopted by Sir John Hill, and 

 supposed to be that of a famous nurseryman at Pom- 

 fret in Yorkshire. See Hill, John, 1755.) 



1759. stilling fleet, Benjamin, an ingenious natur- 

 alist and miscellaneous writer, born about 1702; 

 died 1771. 



His Literary Life and select Works, by William Cox. Lond. 

 181 1. 3 vols. Svo. They contain a Calendar of Flora, and 

 some curious essays towards a history of husbandry. 



1760. Anon. 



The London Gardener. Svo. 



1760. Haddington, Earl of, a Scotch nobleman, 

 whose residence was at Tynningham, near Dunbar, 

 where he made considerable plantations for the time 

 and country ; he was a general encourager of im- 

 provements ; died about 1787. 



A Treatise on Forest Trees. Edin. 8vo. 



1760. Lee, James, of the firm of Messrs. Kennedy 

 and Lee, nurserymen at the Vineyard, Hammer- 

 smith, a native of Scotland ; some time under Miller 

 at Chelsea, afterwards gardener to the Duke of Ar- 

 gyle at Whitton, and next he commenced the nur- 

 sery with Kennedy, then gardener to Lord Bolton 

 at Chiswick. Lee was a correspondent of Linnaeus» 

 and most of the American botanists of the time, 

 and is mentioned by John Ellis as one of the first 

 gardeners. His elements of botany have contri- 

 buted, perhaps more than any other work, to spread 

 a knowledge of the Linnasan system among garden- 

 ers. He died in 1795, and was succeeded by his son 

 of the same name, an ardent lover and liberal pro- 

 moter of gardening improvements. (See 7518.) 



1. Introduction to Botany; containing an Explanation of 

 the Theory of that Science, and an Interpretation of its 

 Technical Terms, extracted from the Works of Linnaeus, &c. ; 

 with 12 plates. Lond. 8vo. 



2. Catalogue of Plants and Seeds, sold by Kennedy and 

 Lee, Nurserymen at the Vineyard, Hammersmith. 



1760. Pullcin, Sa)nuel,'M.A., author of different 

 publications on the silkworm, mulberry, and cotton- 

 plant. 



Observations towards a Method of Preserving the Seeds 

 Plants in a state of Vegetation, during long Voyages. Lond. 

 Svo. 



1760 to 1780. Various authors. The following 

 works contain some pleasing and valuable observ- 

 ations on modern gardening, and are generally con- 

 sidered as having contributed to spread a taste for 

 that style : — 



1. YY'arton's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Tope. 

 Vol. ii. from p. 236. to p. 248. and p. 262. 1762. 



2. The first article in the 2d volume of the Antiquarian Re- 

 pertory is a pleasing description of "White Knights, the seat 

 of Sir Henry Englefield, Bart, one of the first examples of the 

 ferine ornei." 1764. 



3. Letters concerning the present state of England. Svo. 

 1772. Letter 26. 



4. A Tour to London, by Grosley ; translated by Nugent. 

 Svo. 1772. Vol. ii. p. 115. 



5. Knox's Essays. Vol. ii. 4th edit. No. 91. and No. 117. 



6. Laelius and Hortensia. By Dr. Stedman. Svo. 1782. 

 Letters 5 and 6. 



To these may he added from the poets : The Description 

 of the Grotto of Calypso, and of the Garden of Alcinous, in 

 Pope's Odyssey ; of the old Corycian's Garden, in Dryden's 

 Virgil ; of the" Garden of Armida, in Hoole's Tasso ; various 

 passages in Milton's Paradise Lost, Thomson's Seasons, and 

 other poems. 



Among prose writers may be referred to: The Description 

 of the Vale of Tempe, in iElian's Various History ; of Vaucluse 

 and Petrarch's Garden, from Mrs. Dobson's Life of Petrarch ; 

 Petrarch's Description of Sylva Piana ; Smollett's Travels 

 through France and Italy, vol. ii. Letter 31. dated 1765 ; 

 Gough's British Topography, p. 13S. Oxfordshire ; Critical 

 Review for October, 177-. p 312. and August, 17S5 ; and the 

 preface to Girardin's Landscape. To these might be added, 

 various papers in the Gentleman's, Universal, and other ma- 

 gazines, published about this time, and also to the tours and 

 topographical works of the same date. 



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