NINETEENTH CENTURY. 2S9 



Hackney, and there started a nursery garden. His lirst book, 

 Every Man his own Gardener, came out in 1767, and ho 

 was so afraid of faihn-e that he paid Mavve, gardener to. the 

 Duke of Leeds, the sum of ;£'2o to allow his name also to 

 appear on the title-page. Hence the book has become known 

 as the work of Mavve and Abercrombie, although tln' lader 

 wrote it entirely. His other writings, Amateur Canlcui>ii:^, 

 The Gardener's Daily Assistant, and such like, were equally 

 l>opuIar. Another book of this date, by Wm. Hanbury, also 

 gives fidl directions for the cultivation of a great number of 

 trees, shrubs, perennial and annual hardy ilowers, and gri>en- 

 house and stove plants.''^ Among those mentioned in these 

 books we fnid many things which had just been introduced, 

 such as the Pontic Rhododendron, Azalea nudillora, or 

 " American ui)right honeysuckle," as Hanbury calls it ; 

 Andromeda polifolia, varieties of Allspice {Calycanthns) of 

 Sumach {Rhus) and of Magnolia {grandiJJora and others), the 

 snowdrop tree {Ilalesia), Hydrangias, and Spireas, and other 

 hardy plants. There were also many additions to the half 

 hardy and stove plants. Crinum capense or " lily Asphodel," 

 and the more temler IJelladonna lily (Auiaiyllis Ih'lladonna). 

 The Scarborough lily {Vallota purpurea) appeared about this 

 time ; the same kind of story being told of its origin as of 

 that of the Guernsey lily {Nerinc sarniensis), which was said 

 to have grown in Guernstiy from bulbs washed ashore from a 

 wreck of a ship from Japan about 1659. The camellia or 

 "Japanese rose" {Camellia japonica) was grown by the 

 middle of the eighteenth century. The " gardenia, or the 

 Cape Jasmine " {Gardenia flurida), Plumbago {rosea) and otlu'r 

 " tender sorts of leadwort," the Gloriosa superba, and 

 Allamanda {Allamanda catharlica) were among the climbing 

 plants which adorned the stove. 



Some families of plants were becoming so conspicuous as 

 to have a special literature of their own. The geraniums and 

 heaths were treated of by Andrews, the Mesembryanthenunns 



* Complete Body of /'laiitiiiif and (iiirdein'iiif. I»y Win. I laiibiiry, 1770. 

 2 vuls. folio. 



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