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for they certainly convey much instruction in an elegant 

 form. The fourth book which contains the pisode of Nerina 

 is misplaced because too long, it is rather a poem of itself, 

 neither are its merits sufficiently manifest to make us nut feel the 

 intrusion. 



177ij.,«_The Art of planting and cultivating the Vine, &c. ac- 

 cording to the most approved methods in France, 

 By LOUIS de St. PIERRE, a Planter and native of 

 South Carolina. London. 12mo. 



1775. An Essay on the different natural Situations of Gardens. 



London. 4to. This date is on the authority of Dr. 

 Watt, &c. Mr. Loudon states 1774. I have never 

 seen the work. 



1776. The Gardener's Pocket Calendar. By THOMAS 



ELLIS, Gardener to the Bishop of Lincoln. London, 

 12mo. 



1776 — A Treatise on Planting and Gardening. By — KEN- 

 NEDY. York. 8vo. 



JAMES ANDERSON, was born at Herdmanston, or Her- 

 miston, near Edinburgh in 1739, on a farm long in the possesion 

 of his ancestors. His education was the fruit of his own ex- 

 ertions. At fifteen the care of the farm devolved upon him by 

 the death of his parents, and it could not have fallen into abler 

 hands, as was demonstrated by his skilful management. He 

 studied Chemistry under Dr. CuUen, and thus improved and 

 guided his experience by the lights of Science. He soon left 

 Herdmanston and took an uncultivated farm of 1300 acres in 

 Aberdeenshire, which he managed most beneficially for twenty 

 years, and then let, enjoying an annuity from it during the re- 

 mainder of his life. He wrote, " Thoughts on Planting" in the 

 Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, subscribing himself Agricola- 



