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EOBERT SHARROCK, was born at Adstock in Bueklng- 

 liamshire. He commenced his education at Winchester School, 

 and seems to have gained the presentation to New College, 

 Oxford, where he took his degree of Doctor of Laws. He 

 became prebend, and archdeacon of Winchester, and Rector 

 of Bishop's Waltham and of Harewood in Hants. He died in 

 1G84.* He wrote, 



1. The history of the propagation and improvement of Vege- 



tables by the concurrence of Art and Nature. Written 

 according- to the observations made from experience and 

 practice. Oxford, 16G0, without his name. 8vo. Again, 

 Oxford. 16G6, and 1672. 8vo. with the author's name. 



2. Improvements to the Art of Gardening ; or an exact Trea- 

 tise of Plants. London, 1694. folio. 



3. De Officiis secundum Humanoe Rationis dictates, &c. 



4. Judicia de variis Incontinentioe Speciebus. 



6. De finibus virtutis Christianoe. 



1G64. The complete Gardener's Practice. By STEPHEN 

 BLAKE, London. 4to 



1670. The complete Vineyard, or an excellent way for the 

 planting of Vines, and ordering of Wines and W^ine 

 Presses, according to the German and French man- 

 ner. London. 8vo. 



The American Physician, or a Treatise of the Roots, 

 Trees, &c. growing in the English Plantations. 

 With a discourse of the Cocoa Tree, and the ways of 

 making Chocolate. London. 12ma. 1672. 



• "^Veod's Athena Oxonien«is. 



