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working of nature upon several self-colours, in different soils 

 and situations, together with the help of art."* Switzer says, 

 " the practical and plain method in which he has delivered 

 his precepts, arc admirable." There is a second edition of 

 the Flora, with additions. What these are, I know not; un- 

 less they are the cuts of parterres, which were omitted in the 

 first edition. There is an edition in 1696. 



John Worlidge published his Systema Agricultural in 

 folio, 1668; second edition in 1675, folio: fourth edition in 

 1687, folio. An octavo edition 1716, with its English title 

 of " A compleat System of Husbandry and Gardening, or 

 the Gentleman's Companion in the Business and Pleasures of 

 a Country life." In the preface to this, and indeed through- 

 out all his works, we may trace his fondness for gardens. 

 The great variety of rural subjects treated on in this book, 

 may be seen in its Index, or full Analysis. In his second 

 section " Of the profits and pleasures of fruit-trees," he 

 strongly enforces the planting of vineyards. 



His Systema Horticulturae, or the Art of Gardening, was 

 published in 1677, 8vo. ; a third edition 1688; a fourth edition 

 1719. 



Vinetum Britannicum, or a Treatise on Cyder, and other 

 Wines and Drinks, extracted from Fruits: to which is added, 

 a Discourse on Bees; 8vo., second impression, much enlarged, 

 1678. He therein thus paints the pleasures of a garden: — 

 " The exercises of planting, grafting, pruning, and walking 

 in them, very much tendeth to salubrity, as also doth the 

 wholesome airs found in them, which have been experienced 

 not only to cure several distempers incident to our nature, 



* A most curious account of the Tttlipomania, or rage for tulips, former]) 



in Holland, may be seen in Phillips's Flora Historica. 



