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174-t. Adam's Luxury and Eve's Cookcrv, or tlie Kite Inn 

 Garden displayed. London. Uvo. x\iitn\inous 



Curious Expcrimenls in Gardciiing ; modes uf pro- 

 pagation, &c. Illustrated with Wood Cuts. 17^0. 

 12rao. 



1744. A Treatise concerniMg the Husbandry and Natural His- 



tory of England. 8vo. This purports to be a produc- 

 tion of Sir Richard Weston (seep. 05.) but is only a 

 bad abridgement of Ilartlib's Legacy. 



1745. A plan of Mr. Pope's Garden and Grotto, with a cha- 



racter of his writingst 



SIR WILLIAM AV'ATSON, deserves our notice more as 

 the friend of Horticulture, than as ranking lunongthe Authors 

 of Avorks on that Art. He was the son of a respectable 

 Tradesman, in St- John's Street, Smitiilield, and born in i7lo. 

 He was educated at Merchant Tailor's School ; and from 

 thence removed to be apprenticed to an Aputhccarv. He was 

 early distinguished for his love of Botany. In 1738 he mar- 

 ried and commenced business for himself. In 1741 the Royal 

 Society elected him a member. To its "Transactions" he 

 contributed many papers in almost every branch of Natiind 

 History. Sir Hans Sloane the founder of the British Museum 

 nominated him one of its Trustees. He w;is an early and very 

 assiduous experimenter in Electricity, for his discoveries in 

 which he received in 174-3, the Copley Medal from the Royal 

 Society. He took the degree of M. D. in 1737, previous to 

 which he had been elected a Member of the Ro3'al Academy of 

 Madrid ; and Doctor of Physic by the Uuiver-^ities ol'Halle and 

 Wittembergh. He became a Licentiate of the College of Phy- 

 sicians in 1759; one of the Physicians of the Foundling Hoiii 



