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colnshire, who wft« like his father a great delighter in Garden- 

 ing, especially the culture of Fruit Trees. Hitt lived sixteen 

 3-ears with Lord Robert Sutton at Kelham House, in Notting- 

 hamshire. During almost all the period he was a serving Gar- 

 dener, he lived with one branch or other of the Rutland Family. 

 In 1755, he lived with Lord Robert Manners at Bloxholm 

 in Lincolnshire. He eventually became a nurseryman, a de- 

 signer of Gardens &c. in Kent. He died about 1710. He 

 wrote upon Husbandry in general, and upon the improvement 

 of waste land in Aberdeenshire, but his chief work is 



1. A Treatise of Fruit Trees, London, 1755. A second edi- 

 tion appeared in 1757. Third Edition, Dublin, 1758. 

 Miller mentions a third Edition 1768, London : 



It is the result of long experience, and is decidedly one of 

 our best practical works upon the art of training trees. The 

 characteristic of his plan is to check the rise of the sap by 

 making the stem take a tortuous course. 



At his death his MSS came into the possession of James 

 Meader, then gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, from 

 which he published " The Modern Gardener. " 



2. A Treatise of Husbandry, London, 8vo. 1760. 



1756, On the Heat and Cold of Hot houses, London, Bvo. 

 anonymous. 



Observations on Husbandry, published from the ori- 

 ginal MSS of the late Edward Lisle, Esq., of 

 Crux-Easton, Hants, with Notes and observations by 

 his son T. Lisle. D. D. 4to. 



Mr. E. Lisle settled at Crux-Easton in 1793—4, being then 

 about 27 years of age. He died in 1722. His son resided at 



