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other purposes of the first national importance. 

 1793. 8vo. 



The above two works were written by the REV. PHILIP 

 le BROCQ, M. A. and Chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester. 

 At the time he published his work on training Fruit Trees he 

 took out a Patent for this improved method of so managing 

 them which he states was first suggested by Lord Bacon, and 

 practiced by Francis X. Vispre, at Wimbledon and Chelsea, 

 who is noticed in the next chronological notice. 



1786. A Dissertation on the growth of Wine in England.' 

 Bath. 8vo. By FRANCIS XAVIER VISPRE. 



■ A method to preserve Peach and Nectarine Trees 



from the effect of Mildew, and for the destroying the 

 Red Spider in Melon frames, and other insects which 

 infests plants in Stoves and Trees, Shrubs, &:c. in 

 the open Garden. London. 12mo. By ROBERT 

 BROWNE, Gardener to Sir PL Harbord at Gunton 

 in Norfolk. 



178ft. The culture of Forests ; with an Appendix in which the 

 state of the Royal Forests is considered and a system 

 proposed for their improvement. London. 8vo. By 

 Lieutenant Col. A. EMMERICH, deputy Surveyor 

 of the Woods and Forests. 



JOHN GRiEFFER, anative of Germany, came to this coun- 

 try in the middle of the last Century, and being for some time, 

 a pupil of Philip Miller, became the Gardener of James Vere, 

 Esq. of Kensington-Gore. 



He afterwards established a Nursery at Mile End, in partner- 

 ship with Thompson and Gordon. Soon after the death of 

 Gordon, Graeffer recieved the appointment of Gardener to the 



