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1715, 17, 25. 67, and 71. It was (he united pro- 

 duction of C. J. WOLFE, and JAMES GANDON. 



The Landed Man's assistant. By G, Clarke, 12nio. 



Art's Improvements: or experiments in Building, 

 Agriculture, Gardening, &c. London. 8vo. By T. 

 SNOW, author of Apopiroscopy. 



STEPHEN SWITZER, was a general Gardener and Seeds- 

 man of the reigns of Anne and George the I. He was a native 

 of Hampshire. He acquired his knowledge of the Art under 

 the great masters of the day, London and Wise, having been, 

 as he states in the Title page of his "Icnographia Rustica," 

 for several years their servant. He completed his apprenticeship 

 at the close of the 17th. Century. In 170G, he was employed 

 under London inlaying out the grounds of Blenheim. When 

 Mr. Lowdor was superintendant of the Royal Gardens at St. 

 James's, Switzer was employed in them in the capacity of Kit- 

 chen Gardener. In 1724, he was Gardener to the Earl of Orrery, 

 as appears from the Dedication of his Practical Fruit Gardener. 

 The same Dedication is retained in the edition of 1T51. He 

 appears at one time to have been in the same capacity servant 

 to Lord Brooke, to Lord Bathurst and also to Lord W. Russel, 

 who suffered in 1G83. Gardeners in his time were accustom- 

 ed to ply about Westminster Hall and the Royal Exchange 

 oifering Trees, Seeds, &c. for sale. In the first named place 

 having commenced business as a Nurseryman and Seedsman, 

 he kept a stand for the sale of his productions, bearing the 

 sign of the Flower Pot, and close by the entrance to the Court 

 of Common Pleas. His Garden was at Milbank. Where he 

 resided I have been unable to determine, he dates Ins "Diser- 

 tation on the true Cytisus of the ancients" in 1731, from New 

 Palace Yard, Westminster. Mr. Loudon says he died in 1745, 

 at which time he must have been eighty year* of age. 



