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The Exi>ert Gardener, collected out of Dutch 

 and French Author's, ^\ithout an author's name. 

 Another Edition with plates appeared in 1G54. Dr, 

 Watts in hisBibliotheca Britanuica, mentions as bear- 

 ing the date 1640, " The Expert Gardener, or a 

 Treatise concerning Gardening and Grafting. Lon- 

 don. 4to. By C. DE SERCY. Whether these are the 

 same works I cannot determine., 



SIR RICHARD WESTON of Sutton in Surrey, was am- 

 bassador from the court of James the I. in 1619 to Frederick 

 V. Elector Palatine, and King of Bohemia. He deserves a 

 record here from his having written a work on the Agriculture 

 of Flanders, which, as it has been remarked (Pliilosopliic 

 Transactions^ has profited England to the amount of many 

 millions by rendering us acquainted with the practice of tliat 

 countsy. It is entitled, 



1. A discourse of husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders, 

 "shewing the wonderful improvement of land there: and 

 serving as a pattern for our practice in this commonwealth 

 4to. 1645. The second edition enlarged, was edited by 

 Hartlib in 1652. 



2. Brief discoveries of ways and means for manuring and im- 

 proving land, 1646. 



3. He was present at the battle of Prague, of which he has 

 left a curious account still preserved in MS. 



The *' Discourse of Husbandrie" was dedicated to Samuel 

 Hartlib, who published it without knowing at the time who was 

 the author. In another edition (Weston thinks in 1655) Ilarl- 

 lib annexed Dr. Beati's annotations to it. It has always 

 been estimated as an excellent work. 



