300 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



1757 Thomas Hitt. A Treatise of Fruit Trees. London, 1757. 



8vo. (2nd ed.) * 



A Treatise of Husbandry on the improvement of dry 



and barren lands. London, 1760. 8vo. 

 Edward Lisle. Observations on Husbandry. 1757. 4^^- 

 Kdilcd by his son, T. Lisle. 



Robert Maxwell. The practical Husbandman. 1757 



WiLLL\M Mason (the Poet). An heroic Epistle to Sir W. 

 Chambers. London, 1757. 4to. 



An heroic Postscript. 1758 



The English Garden, a Poem, in 4 books Svo. 1772 



Edition with Commentary and Notes, by W. Burgh. 1785. 



James Thompson. The distinguishing properties of a fine 



Auricula. Newcastle, 1757. Svo. 



■ The Dutch Florist. Newcastle, 1758. i2mo. 



Francis Home. Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. 



Edinburgh, 1757. 8vo. 



1758 Thomas Barnes. New method of Propagating Fruit Trees 



and Shrubs, confirmed by repeated and successful 

 experience. London, 1758. 8vo. * 



Later editions, 1759 and 1762. 



Rev. Willl\m Hanburv. An Essay on Planting, and a 

 scheme for making it conducive to the glory of God. 

 Oxford, 1758. " An 8vo. pamphlet " * 



A complete body of planting and gardening. London, 



1770-1. Folio 



1759 Richard North. A Treatise on Grasses and the Norfolk 



Willow. London, 1759. 8vo. 



The Gardener's Catalogue of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, 



Flowers, Seeds, «SlC. 1759. 8vo. * 



Mentioned by Johnson. 



John Mills. Practical Treatise on Husbandry, translated 



from the French of Duhamel de Monceau. 1759- 



4to. ^^''ith plates 

 A new and complete System of Practical Husbandry. 



1762. 5 vols. 8vo. ' 

 The Natural and Chemical Elements of Agriculture, 



from the German of Gyllenborg. 1770. i2mo. 



Essays on Agriculture. 1772. 8vo. 



