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wate of the Northern Counties, directing the ncressary work 

 in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens, and in the Nur- 

 sery, Green-House and Stove. " pjdinhurgh 8vo. Another 

 edition dated the same year, arranged as a monthly Kalondar 

 is very different from the others. There was another Edition 

 in 1767. Professor Martyn says " It is an original and truly 

 valuable work, founded upon reflection and experience". 



SIR JOHN HILL, was the son of a clergyman, and horn 

 about 1716. He was apprenticed to an Apothecary at West- 

 minster, and there being led to the study of Botany, obtained 

 from his proficiency in that Science the patronage of the Duke 

 of Richmond and Lord Petre, who employed him in their Gar- 

 dens. He became a writer almost upon the whole cycle of the 

 Sciences, and by the labour of his pen, for it mattered to him 

 but little what his subject was, he often acquired fifteen hun- 

 dred pounds per annum. So that emolument was to be gained 

 he apparently was not very scrupulous in what schemes he en- 

 gaged. That he was a man of talents cannot be denied to him 

 but that he prostituted them is demonstrated by the contempt 

 in which he was generally held. In 1746 he tran^lated Tlieo- 

 phrastus " On Gems.'' "A general Natural History" in 3 vols. 

 folio; "a supplement to Chambers' Cyclopaedia" and a periodical 

 named "the Inspector" rapidly followed each other. He ob- 

 tained a Doctor's Degree at St. Andrews, and then(>udeavoured 

 in vain to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He vent- 

 ed his disappointment in a Pamphlet and a quarto volume, 

 which in however bad spirit they were dictated are acutely 

 written. He profited much by being a proprietor of quack 

 Medeciues. Having obtained the patronage of the Earl of 

 Bute, he published under his auspices " a System of Botany'' in 

 26 volumes folio; for which pompous work he was created a 

 knight of the Order of Vasa, by the King of Sweden- He 

 wrote several novels and farces. He died Nov. 22nd. 1775. Ho 

 had a dispute with Garrick, having published a pamjihlct in 



