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from being the Author of an admirable Essay in '• The World" 

 Nu. XV. Apl. 12. 1753, entitled "Strictures on the absurd 

 nuvelties introduced in Gardening, and a humorous description 

 of Squire Mushroom's Villa." 



1753. A Treatise on the Hyacinth ; containing the manner of 

 cultivating- that flower, on the experience lately made 

 by the most eminent Florists in Holland. Translated 

 from the Dutch by BARTHOLEMEW ROCQUE. 

 London. 8vo. 



Rocque was a florist at Walham Green. He wrote several 

 Agricultural Works, as on Lucerne, &c. He was a great cul- 

 tivator of Grasses. 



JAMES JUSTICE, was one of the principal Clerks of Ses- 

 sion in Scotland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His father 

 was a Merchant, who importing bulbous roots from Holland, is 

 said first to have given the son a taste for their culture which 

 increased to a passion for Gardening in general that was un- 

 controulable. He ,had a Villa and Garden at Crichton near 

 Dalkeith, upon which he expended his fortune, and was ulti- 

 mately obliged to sell it, after devoting himself in its retire- 

 ment, to the practice, of Gardening for thirty years- To acquire 

 information on the culture of bulbous rooted flowers, he twice 

 visited Holland and travelled once into Italy for further im- 

 provement in his skill and taste He was imsparing of expense 

 in procuring Exotics and new varieties- He was the first to 

 introduce the Pine Apple into Scotland, and had as he states 

 the largest collection of Auriculae in Europe. He died in 1702 

 or 3. He was the Author of the following work. 



The Scot's Gardener's Director, Edinburgh, 1754, 8vo. — 

 Another Edition appeared in 1764, after his decease, entitled 

 "The British Gardener's Director, chiefly adapted to the dim 



