Book I. 



BRITISH WORKS ON GARDENING. 



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a man of taste and genius, author of the Castle of 

 Otranto, several papers in the World, &c. ; he 

 sat in parliament from 1741 to 1768, when he retired, 

 and devoted his time to the improvement of his 

 villa, Strawberry-hill, near Twickenham. In 1791 

 he succeeded his nephew as Earl of Orford, but 

 never took his seat in the House of Lords. He died 

 in 1797. 



1. On Modem Gardening, published in the Anecdotes of 

 Painting; in a later edition of 1782 are some additional 

 notes. 



Various Remarks on Gardening occur in his correspond- 

 ence with Mr. Montague, published hi 1818, in 4to. 



1781. Darwin, Erasmus, M.D. F.R.S., an eminent 

 physician and poet, born at Elton near Newark, in 

 Nottinghamshire, in 1731. Completed his medical 

 studies at Edinburgh, settled at Litchfield, where 

 he resided the greater part of his life : but went to 

 Derby in 1781, and died there in 1802. As a poet 

 he is esteemed rather gaudy and fanciful ; as a phi- 

 losopher, he is apt to indulge in hypothesis ; but he 

 possesses the great quality of being totally exempt 

 from every kind of prejudice. 



Phytologia, or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Garden- 

 ing, with the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an im- 

 proved construction of the Drill Plough. Lond. 1800. 4to. 



1781. Fuinier, Samuel. 



The Young Gardener's best Companion for the Kitchen and 

 Fruit Garden. Lond. 12mo. 



1781. Lettsom, John Coakley, M.D. F.R.S., an 

 eminent physician in London, was born on a small 

 isle called little Van Dyke, near Tortola, in 1744 ; 

 died 1815. 



1. Hortus Uptonensis ; or a Catalogue of Stove and Green- 

 house Plants in Dr. Fothergill's Garden, at his death. Lond. 

 1781. 8ve. 



2. Grovehill ; a Rural and Horticultural Sketch. Lond. 

 1804. 4to. 



3. On the Beta Cicla, or Root of Scarcity. (Caled. Hort. 

 Mem. i. 420.) 



1783. A?wn. 



Some thoughts on Building and Planting, addressed to Sir 

 James Lowther, Bart, published in Dodsley's collection of 

 poems for this year. 



1783. Bryant, Charles, of Norwich. 



1. Flora Diaetetica, or the History of Esculent Plants, both 

 Domestic and Foreign, in which they are accurately described 

 and reduced to their Linnsan, generic, and specific names, 

 with their English names annexed. Lond. 1783. 8vo. 



2. A Dictionary of the Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and 

 Plants, most commonly cultivated in the Plantations, Gar- 

 dens, and Stoves of Great Britain ; arranged according to the 

 Linnaean generic names, and containing full and accurate 

 Descriptions of the Genera and Species, with the names 

 properly accented. Norwich, 1790. 8vo. 



1783. Falconer, William, M.D. F.R.S., physician 

 to the general hospital, Bath ; author of a num- 

 ber of medical works, and of Remarks on the 

 influence of climate, situation, nature of country, 

 population, nature of food, and way of life ; on 

 the disposition and temper, manner and behaviour, 

 intellects, laws and customs, forms of government, 

 and religion of mankind. A most interesting 

 work. 



1. An Historical View of the Taste for Gardening and 

 Laying out Grounds among the Nations of Antiquity. 8vo. 

 The principal parts of this tract were originally printed in the 

 Literary and Philosophical Memoirs of the Manchester So- 

 ciety. 8vo. 



2. An Essay on the Preservation of the Health of Persons 

 employed in Agriculture ; and on the Cure of Diseases inci- 

 dent to that way of life. Lond. 1789. 8vo. 



3. Miscellaneous Tracts and Collections relating to Natural 

 History ; selected from the principal writers of antiquity on 

 that subject. Lond. 1793. 4to. 



1784. Curtis, William, a botanical writer, was born 

 at Alton in Hampshire in 1746. He served his ap- 

 prenticeship as an apothecary to his grandfather, 

 and while in that situation cultivated botany with 

 eagerness. At the age of twenty he came to Lon- 

 don, and entered into the service of Mr. Talwin of 

 Gracechurch-street, to whose business he succeed- 

 ed. His love of botany, however, induced him to 

 give up the shop, and he became a lecturer and de- 

 monstrator in his favorite science. His first garden 

 was at Bermondsey, and afterwards he occupied a 

 more extensive one at Lambeth, which he ex- 

 changed for another at Brompton. In 1771, he pub- 

 lished Instructions for Collecting and Preserving 

 Insects; and in the following year a translation of 

 the Fundamenta Entomologke of Linnaeus, with the 

 title of an Introduction to the Knowledge of In- 

 sects. In 1777, appeared the first number of his 

 Flora Londonensis, which was completed in six 

 fasciculi of seventy-two plates each. This work 

 was followed by the Botanical Magazine, in monthly 

 numbers. In 1782 he published a History of the 

 Brown-tailed Moth ; besides which he wrote Prac- 

 tical Observations on the British Grasses, and some 

 papers in the transactions of the Linnaean Society, 

 of which he was a member. He died in 1799, and 



was buried at Battersea ; after his death his lectures 

 were published with colored plates. 



1. A Catalogue of British Medical, Culinary, and Agricul- 

 tural Plants, cultivated in the London Botanical C^irden. 

 Lond. 1784. 12mo. 



Mr. C. commenced the Botanical Magazine in 1787. A 

 work which has met with great encouragement, and has done 

 much to diffuse a general taste for botany. It is still con- 

 tinued by Dr. Sims. 



2. Observations on Aphides, chiefly intended to show that 

 they are the principal cause of Blights in Plants, and the sole 

 cause of the Honey Dew. {Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 75. 1802, 

 posth.) 



1784. Rodenhurst, T. 



A Description of Hawkstone in Shropshire, the seat of Sir 

 Richard Hill, Bart, in 1799. 12mo. 



1785. Anon. 



Miscellanies on Ancient and Modern Gardening, and on 

 the Scenery of Nature. Lond- 8vo. 



1785. Kyle, Thomas, gardener to the Hon. Baron 

 Stewart of Moredun, near Edinburgh. One of the 

 first gardeners in Scotland of his time. 



Treatise on the Management of the Peach and Nectarine 

 Trees, either in Forcing-houses or on hot and common Walls. 

 Edin. 8vo. 



1785. Marshall, William, Esq., a native of York- 

 shire, brought up to trade; was some years in the 

 West Indies, as a planter ; returned about 1775, and 

 took a farm in Surrey ; went down into Norfolk as 

 agent to Sir Harbord Harbord's estates in 1780 ; 

 left this situation in 1784, and went and resided at 

 Statfold, near the junction of the four counties of 

 Leicester, Warwick, Stafford, and Derby, where lie 

 remained till 1786, occupied in collecting materials 

 for his economical surveys, and in printing some of 

 his works. From this time, till about 1808, he re- 

 sided chiefly in Clement's Inn, London, in winter, 

 and visited different parts of the country during 

 summer. He spent one summer in Perthshire, 

 chiefly on the Earl of Bredalbane's estates at Tay- 

 mouth ; and partly also on the Earl of Mansfield's at 

 Scone. He proposed arrangements for the tenant- 

 able lands, and also the park and woody scenery on 

 various estates ; and finally retired to a considerable 

 property he purchased in his native county, in the 

 Vale of Cleveland, in 1808, where he died at an ad- 

 vanced age, in 1819. He was a man of little educa- 

 tion, but of a strong and steady mind ; and pursued, 

 in the most consistent manner, from the year 1780 

 to his death, the plan he originally laid down ; that 

 of collecting and condensing the agricultural prac- 

 tices of the different counties of England, with a 

 view to a general work on Landed Property, which 

 he published ; another on Agriculture, which he 

 did not live to complete ; and a Rural Institute, in 

 which he was supplanted by the Board of Agri- 

 culture. 



1. Planting and Rural Ornament, 1 vol. 8vo. A second 

 edition in 2 vols, in 1796. 



2. A Re% iew of the Landscape, a didactic poem : also an 

 Essay on the Picturesque ; together with Practical Remarks 

 on Rural Ornament. Lond. 1796. 



1786. Brocq, Philip Le, M. A., chaplain to the 

 Duke of Gloucester. About the time he published 

 his work on the Vine, he took out a patent for 

 " training all sorts of fruit-trees or vines near the 

 ground," as suggested by Lord Bacon, and practised 

 at the time the patent was taken out by F. X. Vis- 

 pre, at Wimbledon, and subsequently at Chelsea. 

 (See Speechley, Treatise on the Vine, 8vo. edition, 

 p. 205.) 



1. A Description of certain Methods of Planting, Training, 

 and Managing all kinds of Fruit Trees, Vines, &c. Lond. 

 1786. 8vo. 



2. Sketch of a Plan for making the Tract of Land called the 

 New Forest, a real Forest, and for various other purposes of 

 the first national importance. Stockdale, 1793. 8vo. 



1786. Browne, Robert, gardener to Sir Harbord 

 Harbord, Bart, at Gunton, in Norfolk. 



A method to preserve Peach and Nectarine Trees from the 

 Effects of the Mildew ; and for the destroying the red spider 

 in melon frames, and other insects which infest plants in 

 stoves, and trees, shrubs, &c. in the open garden. Lond.l2mo. 



1786. Vispre, Francis Xavier. 



A Dissertation on the Growth of Wine in England. Bath, 

 8vo. 



1789. Emmerich, Lieutenant-colonel A., a Ger- 

 man gentleman, author of a tract on his own pro- 

 fession, and deputy-surveyor of the woods and 

 forests under Mr. Robinson. 



The Culture of Forests; with an Appendix, in which the 

 state of the Royal Forests is considered, and a system proposed 

 for their improvement. Lond. 1789. Svo. 



1789. Graffer, John, a native of Germany, who 

 came to England about the middle of the eighteenth 

 century, and after being some time under Miller, 

 was gardener to James Vere, Esq., of Kensington- 

 Gore. Afterwards he joined Thompson, a gardener, 

 and Gordon, a seedsman, in establishing a nursery at 

 Mile-end. When Gordon died, the nursery became 

 the sole property of Thompson, the present pro- 



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