truce of contemporary recollection of a man, who, in his day, 

 was so highly esteemed.* 



Robert Sharrock, Archdeacon of Winchester, and Rec- 

 tor of Bishop's Waltham, and of Horewood. Wood, in his 

 Athena?, says, " he was accounted learned in divinity, in 

 the civil and common law, and very knowing in vegetables, 

 and all appertaining thereunto. He published The History 

 of the Propagation and Improvement of Vegetables, by the 

 concurrence of art and nature. Oxford, 1660, 8vo., and 

 167:2, Svo.: an account of which book you may see in the 

 Phil. Trans. No. 84, page 5002." He also published Im- 

 provements to the Art of Gardening ; or an exact Treatise 

 on Plants. London, 1G91; folio. This must have been a 

 posthumous work, as he died in 1684'. 



Iliffe, in 1670, published in 12mo. The compleat 



Vineyard. 



John Rea, the author of " Flora, Ceres, and Pomona." 

 It is enriched by a frontispiece engraved by D Loggan. 

 He dedicates the above folio, in 1665, to Lord Gerard, of 

 Gerard's Bromley. His lordship, it seems, about that time, 

 determined to erect that noble mansion, which Plot has given 

 us a plate of; and Rea, in this folio, enumerates those plants, 



* In the above tract of Dr. Beale's, he thus breaks out in praise of the 

 Orchards of this deep and rich county : — " From the greatest person to the 

 poorest cottager, all habitations are encompassed with orchards, and gar- 

 dens, and in most places our hedges are enriched with rows of fruit trees, 

 pears or apples. All our villages, and generally all our highways, (all our 

 vales being thick set with rows of villages), are in the spring time sweet- 

 ened and beautified with the blossomed trees, which continue their change- 

 able varieties of ornament, till (in the end of autumn), they fill our garners 

 with pleasant fruit, and our cellars with rich and winy liquors. Orchards, 

 being the pride of our county, do not only sweeten, but also purify the am- 



