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This Gentleiian was brother to the President of the London 

 Horticultural Society. lie built Dowuton Hall, near Ludlow, 

 from his own designs, but after residing- there some years, he 

 resigned possesion of it to his brother, and dwelt during the rest 

 of his life chiefly in London. 



]\Tr. Knight was born at Wormsley Grange, in Herefordshire, 

 in 1750 and died in 1824. 



Whoever has seen the Estate of DowntonHall and read " The 

 Landscape" will need no criticism of mine to point out the 

 taste of their author. Of the latter I shall have occasion 

 presently to speak more fully. 



JAMES IM'PHAIL, Gardener for more than twenty years 

 to the last Earl of Liverpool, at Addiscoinbe Place near Croy- 

 don. He is author of some Essays on Agriculture and the 

 Poor Laws. Mr, Loudon says he is a skilful cultivator of 

 Pines and Melons. He is Author of the two following Horti- 

 cultural publications, 



1. A Treatise on the culture of the Cucumber; showing: a 

 new and advantageous method of cultivating tliat Plant, 

 with full directions for the management thereof, and the 

 degree of Heat it requires on every day of the year, Arc. 

 To which are added Hints and Observations on the im- 

 provement of Agriculture. London. 1791. 8vo. 



He raised Cucumbers throughout the year from the same 

 plants. 



3. The Gardener's Remembrancer throughout the year, ex- 

 hibiting the surest and most approved methods of 

 manuring, digging, sowing, See. The nature of Earth, Water, 

 Heat, Air, and Climate, best adapted for the culture of 



