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2- A Treatise on the culture and management of Fruit Trees 

 in which a new method of training and pruning is fully 

 described. Plates London. 1802, 4to. The fourth Edi- 

 tion is dated 1806. 8vo- The 7th, in 8vo. 182 1. 



1791. The Linnaean Transactions were first published in this 



year. 



1792. The Florist's Directory, and complete Treatise on tho 



culture and management of Flowers with a supple- 

 » mentary Essay on Soils, Manures, &:c. Plates. 

 London. 8vo. By J.\MES MADDOCK, florist at 

 Walworth. 



Maddock died about 180G. He was a Quaker, and came 

 orig-inally from Warrington in Lancashire. A new Edition of 

 his Directory with improvements was edited by Mr. S. Curtis 

 in 1822. London. 8vo. 



1793. An Essay on Gardening; containing a Catalogue of 



Exotic Plants, for Stoves and Grocnhousos of British 

 Gardens ; the best method of planting the Hot-house 

 Vine, &c. with the history of Gardening, and a con- 

 trast of the ancient with the modern taste. Cuts. 

 York. 4to. By RICHARD STEELE, gardcMier, 

 Thirsk, Yorkshire. 



JOHN TRUSLER, L. L. D. was born in London in 

 1735, He was apprenticed to a petty Apothecary, but con- 

 trived to desert the Pestle for tho Pulpit, and officiated for 

 some time as a Curate. Li 1771 he began to publish compila- 

 tions which, however contemptible, answered their authsir's 

 object by obtaining for him, in conjunction with the busines-j 

 of a Bookseller which he established, a large fottune. He 



