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His portrait by Vertuo after J. Verelst, is prefixed to his 

 translation of Rapin. 



- THOMAS FAIRCHILD, was one of the few Gardeners of 

 his time who united a love of Science with the practice of his 

 art. He is mentioned thronghout Bradley's works as a man of 

 general information and fond of scientific research, and in 

 thera arc given many of his experiments to demonstrate tiie sex- 

 uality of plants and their possesion of a circulatory system. 

 He was a commercial Gardener at Hoxton, carrying on one of 

 the largest trades as a nuseryman and florist that were then 

 established- He was one of the latent English cultivators of a 

 Vineyard of which he had one at Hoxton as late as 17*22. He 

 died in 1729, leaving funds for insuring the delivery of a ser- 

 mon annually in the Church of St- Leonard's, Shoreditch, on 

 Whit-Tuesday, "On the wonderful works of God in the Cre- 

 ation ; or On the certainty of the resurrection of the dead, pro- 

 ved by the certain changes of the animal and vegetable parts 

 of the creation.'' 



Besides several letters published in Bradley's Works and a 

 paper "On the different and sometimes contrary motion of the 

 sap in plants'' in the Philosophical Transactions tor 1724 

 (xxxiii. p. 127) he published, '' 



The City Gardener ; containing the most exj)eiieiioed me- 

 thod of cultivating and (srdering such Evergreens, Fruit Trees, 

 Flowering shrubs, Flowers, Exotick Plants, ice. as will be or- 

 namental, and thrive best in the London CJardens. London. 

 1722. A small octavo pamphlet. 



172 1. A Treatise on the manner of Fallowing ground, raising 

 of grass, seeds, and training Lint and Hem]). 

 Anonymous- It mo. 



