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ipse pliiriraum atlauxit, et in musso Lanibelhiano, amicis 

 visendum exhibet. Hollar fecit. l*2nio. — Tiie original p lin- 

 tings of the above are in the Ashmolean Museum. 



DR, JOHN BEALE, was a most ardent promoter of Horti- 

 culture, especially of Orcharding'. He was a native of Here- 

 fordshire, which country he greatly benefited, as Gough in his 

 Topography records. His family, which had long flourished in 

 Herefordshire, seemed to inherit a zeal for the plantation of 

 Orchards, and the individual of whom Aveare now sketching the 

 biography, was fully gifted with the family liereditanK^nt. He 

 so raised and extended the reputation of the Orchards of his 

 County, and their produce, that in a few years it gained some 

 hundred thousands of pounds by the increased reputation.* 

 His enthusiastic love of the agricolan arts is manifested in 

 every one of his writings. He was a man of talent, and 

 the companion of the men of genius contemporary with Jiim. 

 Many of his letters are preserved in Boyle's works. That phi- 

 losopher thus speaks of him, "There is not in life, a man in 

 this whole island, nor on the continents beyond the seas, that 

 could be made more universally useful to do good to all.'' He 

 w as in the church. He was born in 1603 —and died in 1003. 

 He wrote, 



1. A Treatise on Fruit Trees, shewing their manner of grafting, 



pruning, and ordering: Of Cyder and Perry: Of Vineyards 

 in England, &c. Oxford. 1G53 and 1657. 4to and 1665. 

 12mo. 



2. The Hereford Orchards ; a pattern for the whole of En- 



gland. By J. B. London. 1657. 12mo. and 1724. 8vu. 



This is dedicated to Samuel Harllib, and is the most cele- 

 * GougU's Antifiuiticr-, p. 193. 



