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to lay their hands on a tree in any of these kingdoms, that 

 have not been a part of their care. Mr. London, by his 

 great fatigues in heat and cold, notwithstanding naturally of 

 a healthy, strong constitution, was at last seized with an ill- 

 ness, which carried him off after a few months' sickness. I 

 shall take no other notice of him than what relates to my 

 purpose in gardening, in which he has left a laudable exam- 

 ple to all that shall have the encouragement to enter, and the 

 courage and strength to perform what he did. He died to- 

 wards Christmas in the year 1713." 



In the preface to his Iconologia, he again mentions them: 

 — " Had their leisure been equal to their experience, the 

 world might from them have reasonably expected the com- 

 pleatest System of Gardening that any age or country has 

 produced. It is to them we owe most of those valuable pre- 

 cepts in gardening now in use, and their memory ought to be 

 transmitted to posterity, with the same care as those of the 

 greatest and most laborious philosophers and heroes, who by 

 their writing and practice have deserved so well of the world." 



He again mentions his old master, Mr. London: — " In 

 fine, he was the person that refined the business and pleasure 

 of kitchen and fruit gardens to a pitch beyond what was ever 

 till that time seen, and more than was thought possible for 

 one man ever to do ; and (till the succession of two eminent 

 persons in these kingdoms, who have very much outstript 

 him) has not had his fellow in any century that history gives 

 us account of." 



Switzer, speaking of Dr. Compton, Bishop of London, 

 says, " He was a great encourager of Mr. London, and pro- 

 bably very much assisted him in his great designs. This 

 reverend father was one of the first that encouraged the 

 importation, raising and increase of exoticks, in which he 



