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Milli r, who recommended him to Sir James Cockburn, Bart, 

 at Petersham, He was afterwards with the Earl of Glasgow, 

 near Paisley. 



1778 — The Practical Gardener, directing in the most plain and 

 easy manner, what is necessary to be done in the 

 Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, the Green-house 

 and Wilderness. London. 8vo. No author's name. 



-The Beauties of Flora displayed, or Gentleman and 

 Lady's Pocket Companion to the Flower and Kitchen 

 Garden. London 8vo. By N. SWINDEN, Gar- 

 dener and Seedsman at Brendford End, Middlesex. 



1779. A Catalogue of the Plants in the Garden of John 

 Blackbourne, Esq. alphabetically arranged according 

 to the Linnajan System, London. 8vo. By ADAM 

 NEALE, gardener to the above gentleman near 

 Warrington, Lancashire. 



WILLIAM SPEECHLEY, was the son of a respectable 

 farmer, and was born at a village, near Peterburgh, in North- 

 amptonshire. A strong genius, and great industry, which dis- 

 played itself very early in his sketchesof fruit, flowers, designs, 

 &c. and engraving them on Copper Plates, was assisted by a 

 good education. He began his noviciate as a Gardener at 

 Milton Abbey, now Earl Fitzwilliam's ; from thence he pro- 

 ceeded to Earl Carlisle's at Castle Howard. He became head 

 Gardener to Sir W. St. Quintin, and in 1767 removed to the 

 same situation at the Duke of Portland's at Welbeck in Not- 

 tinghamshire. The Duke sent -him in 1771 on a tour to the 

 chief Gardens of Holland. Soon after the Stoves at Welbeck, 

 which became so j ustly celebrated, were erected from Speechley's 

 designs and under his inspection. About 1790 he was engaged 

 by Sir John Sinclair to write some papers on Domestic CEcuo- 



