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8. Gleanings on Gardens, chiefly respecting those 

 of the Ancient bt^le in En<;laDd. LodcIod. 1829. 

 €vo- 



With lie author of these works I have not the pleasure of a 

 personal acquaintance, but whoever reads the above woiks, and 

 his " Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds," will agree with Mr. Lou- 

 don in arkno\vle(it;int^, that he has "a mind richly stored with 

 almost every description of literary knowledg'e," It is a me- 

 lancholy prospect of human nature taken by some persons, that 

 the Uiind becomes contracted as age advances, and that espe- 

 cially the literary soxag-enarian becomes soured in temper and 

 circumscribed in his views. Many are proofs in support of a 

 contrary opinion, and as living examples I will quote the Presi- 

 dent of the Horticultural Society aud Mr. Felton. 



1785. Planting and Gardening, a practical Treatise, iivo. 



A Treatise on the management of Peach and Necta- 

 rine Trees, either in forcing houses, or on hot and 

 common Walls — Edinburgh — 8vo, By THOxMAS 

 KYLE. Gardener to the Hon. Baron Steward of 

 Moredun, near Edinburgh, Kyle was one of the best 

 Gardeners in Scotland of his time.* The second 

 Edition of the above, Edinburgh. 1787. 



WILLIAM MARSHALL, Esq. was a native of Yorkshire 

 He began life as a coramercialist, and was a Planter for some 

 years in the West Indies, but returned to England ab( ut 1775 

 and took a farm in Surrey. In 1780 he resided at Gunlon in 

 Norfolk as Agent of the Estates of Sir Harbord Ilarbord, 

 which situation he resigned in 1784, and settled at Stratfold, 

 where he remained two years, occcpied in printing some of his 

 wntings, and in collecting materials for his " CEconomical Sur- 



• Encyclopiedia of Gardening, p. 1109' Ed. d» 



