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To analize the above numerous works which bear the name 

 of Bradley, would be a useless task, since if we except 

 soiiie experiments which he instituted to prove the circulation 

 of the Sap, and the sexuality of Plants, they contain nothing 

 which is not contained in previous or contemporary authors. 

 His works however may be read with pleasure as aboundiiig 

 in information collected from books, and men of learning-, with 

 whom he maintained a very enlarged correspondence- Little 

 as he was of an original author he must be regarded as one of 

 the best friends of Horticulture ; the theoretical and scientific 

 views that he had of Vegetation and the several practices of 

 Gardening, which he laboured to illustrate with experiments 

 and practical knowledge procured from others, contributed 

 greatly to direct the attention of amateurs as well as practitio- 

 ners into the true mode of acquiring a correct knowledge of 

 the Art' 



His works had a very wide circidation, being upheld by the 

 appended Title of his professorship, and by coinciding most 

 opportunely with the increasing love of Gardening, and con- 

 sequently rapidly increasing introduction of exotics which was 

 one of the characteristics of his age. Bradley laboured indo- 

 fatigably and successfully to promote the improvement of 

 Horticulture, and however we may despise the man, we should 

 respect the benefactor. It must be remarked that, the " Gene- 

 ral Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening" (14) was intended 

 by him as a summary of what he had previously written on the 

 subject. In his " New Improvement of Planti-ig and (Jar- 

 dening," he has introduced the whole of Dr. Beales's scarce 

 and valuable Tract on the "Herefordshire Orchards". 



1716' The Young Gardener's Director. London. 12mo. 

 With a plate representing knots of Flowers ; and a 

 frontispiece being a view of an old Garden. 



