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have tasted both rough and smooth, as we plainly call it, from 

 the host business and books, to the meanest laboms of the 

 ScytheySpade, and Wheelbarrow." That by misfortunes he 

 had been reduced to a hnmhle station in Gardening-, he often 

 glances at. From the above Preface, we also learn, that he 

 had travelled on the continent, especially in France, paying par- 

 ticular attention to the style of design in Ornamental Garden- 

 ing. This preface is throughout well worthy of perusal ; in- 

 dependent of an eloquent, though in places far too florid style, 

 it breathes an appropriate feeling of love for his art, a spirit of 

 candour in warning Gentlemen of those errors both of expense 

 and penury which were alike sure to defeat their object, in the 

 ornamental disposition of their Parks, or " Extensive Garden- 

 ing'' as he appropriately terms it, " a kind, he observes,, not 

 yet much used with us. It is curious among other warnings 

 to find him telhng the landed Proprietor, to beware of the 

 Scotch Gardeners, who even in his day appear tx) have been 

 objects of jealousy, and caused him to forget his accustomed 

 suavity. "These Northern Lads, which whether they have 

 served any time in this Art or not, very few of us know any 

 thing of, yet by the help of a little learning, and a great deal of 

 impudence, they invade these southern provinces, and the na- 

 tural benignity of this warmer climate has such a wonderful in- 

 fluence on them, that one of them knows, or at least pretends to 

 know, more in one twelvemonth than a laborious, honest south 

 countryman does in seven years." " The tliree exports of 

 Scotand — Gardeners, Black Cattle, and Doctors," is a toast 

 now often given. The following is a list and analysis of his 

 published works. 



1- Icnographia Rustiea, or the nobleman, gentleman, and 

 Gardener's Recreation, containing directions forlhe general 

 distribution of a country seat, into rural and extensive 

 Gardens, Parks, Paddocks, c^c. and a general system 

 of Agriculture, illustrated with great variety of copper- 



