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3. The natural and chemical Elements of Agriculture fron* 

 the German of Gyllcnborg. 12mo. 1770. 



4. Essays on Agriculture^ 8vo. 1772* 



1760. The London Gardener* London. 8vo. Anonymous* 



THOMAS HAMILTON, EARL of HADDINGTON was 

 born in 1734, and died May lOth* 1794. This nobleman was 

 a great encourager of improvements in the arts of cultivation. 

 The fine plantations which are about the family mansion at 

 Tynningham uear Dunbar, are monuments of his fondness for 

 arboriculture. He was the author of 



V 



A Treatise on Forest Trees. Edinburgh. 17G0. 8vo« 



JAMES LEE, a native of Scotland, was one of the best 

 Gardeners of his time- He was for some time under Philip 

 Miller at the Chelsea Garden ; and afterwards Gardener to the 

 Duke of Argyle at Whitton, Middlesex, who was a great im- 

 porter of Exotick Trees, and for that reason only, inviduously 

 nick-named by Walpole "A Tree-Monger". In conjunction 

 with Kennedy, then Gardener to Lord Bolton at Chiswick, Lee 

 commenced the business of a Nurseryman, at the Vineyard 

 Hammersmith. He was patronized by a great many of theno- 

 bility and gentry, to whom he became known by his extensive 

 knowledge of Natural History; and his Garden became particu- 

 lai'ly rich in plants from the extensive correspondence he kept 

 up with Linnaius and other contemporary Botanists. — He died 

 in 1797. He was author of, 



1. An Introduction to Botany ; containing an explanation of 



the Theory of the Science, and an interpretation of its 



technical terms, extracted from the works of Linnaeus, &c« 



■ 12 Plates. 1700. Bvo- A work wliich Pultney speaks f%- 



