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JOHN ROSE, was considered the best Gardener of his time, 

 he acted in that capacity successively to the Earl of Essex, at 

 Essex House, in th« Strand, (whore he was in 1665,) to the 

 Duchess of Cleveland, to the Duchess of Somerset, and Charfes 

 thell, at St- James's. He appears to have beena man of general 

 t air lit being- admitted to the society of the virtuosi of the age. 

 Mr, London, was a favourite pupil of his. Rose wentto study the 

 sivle (if the G aniens of Versailles, at the expense of the Earl of 

 Essex. There is a portrait of Rose in oils, at Kensington 

 Paiace, representing him giving the first Pine-apple cultivated in 

 England to Cl'.arles the H. whilst that monarch was on a visit 

 to Rose's mistress, the Duchess of Cleveland, at Downey 

 Court, Buckinghamshire.* He was dead at the time Switzer 

 wrote his Icnographia in 1718.f He wrote, 



1. The English Vineyard vindicated, and the way of making 



Wine in France. 1675— 1G70— and 1690. 8vo. This fir!>t 

 appeared at the end of Evelyn»s French Gardener in 1672* 

 12mo. 



2. A Treatise upon Fruit Trees. This is mentioned by 

 Switzer, but is a work I have never seen. 



The English Vineyard is dedicated to the King, to whom he 

 was then (1672) Gardener. The preface is by Mr- Evelyn and 

 informs us of the origin of the work. Talking with Rose about 

 Vines "he reasoned so pertinently upon that subject, as indeed 

 he does upon all things which concern his hortulan profession' 

 that ho persuaded the latter to allow him to give his opinions a 

 literary dress. Chap. 1- Is of the Vines best suited to the cli- 

 mate of England, and consist of. The Black Cluster. White 

 Muscadine. Parsley leaved Grape. White Muscadella. White 

 and Red Frontiniac, and a White Grape not named but with 



• There is a copy of this in Water Colour?, in the Library of the London 

 Horticultural Society, i Switzer's Icnographia Rustica, v. 1. p. 68, &c. 



