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arc occupied by the follov*ing obseryations. " The root is very 

 near the nature of the Jerusalem Artichoke, but not so good or 

 wholesome. These are planted either of roots or seeds, and 

 may probably be propagated in great quantities, and prove 

 good food for swine." 



1711. The English Herbal or History of Plants, containing 



1. Their names Greek, Latin, and English. 2. Spe- 

 cies, or various kinds. 3. Descriptions. 4. Places 

 of growth. 5. Times of flowering and seeding. 6. 

 Qualities or properties. 7. Their specifications. 8. 

 Preparations Galenic and Chymic. 9. Virtues and 

 uses. 10. A complete florilegium of all the choice 

 * flowers cultivated by our florists interspersed through 

 the work, in their proper places, where you have their 

 culture, choice, increase, and way of management, as 

 well for profit as delectation, adorned with exquisite 

 icons or figures of the most considerable species. 

 By WILLIAM SALMON, M. D. fol. 2 vols. 1711. 

 This compilation is chiefly on the medical qualities of 

 Plants. 



VanOosten's Dutch Gardener, or the complete Florist. 

 London. 8vo. Weston mentions an edition dated 1703. 



1712. The Theory and Practice of Gardening, and all that 



relates to fine Gardens : from the French of M* Le 

 Blond. By— JAMES. London. 4to. With cuts. Mr. 

 James made another translation from the same au- 

 thor in 1728. See that year. 



From the very full extracts which I have given from Heres- 

 bach, Parkinson, &c. it will be seen that in the Kitchen 

 Garden and Orchard, there are few Plants, now cultivated by 

 us in those departments, which they did not contain in the pe- 



