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festoons, and fruitages, depending from the yielding boughs, 

 pregnant with their offspring, and pouring forth their plenty 

 and store, as out of so many Amalthean horns? Some tinc- 

 tured with the loveliest white and red; others an azurine- 

 purple; others striped with an incarnadine, as over a tissue 

 of vegetable gold. Colours of an oriency, that mock the 

 pencil of the most exquisite artist; and with which their na- 

 tive beauty, perfume, fragrancy, and taste, gratify and enter- 

 tain more senses at once, than does any sublunary object in 

 all unvitiated nature besides." 



Their other Work was thus announced in one of the original 

 numbers of the Spectator, which came out in small folio weekly 

 numbers, and a portion of each number was appropriated to 

 advertisements. It was thus advertised in that of May 5th, 

 1711 :— " The Retired Gardener. Vol i. Being a Trans- 

 lation of Le Jardinier Solitaire; or, Dialogues between a Gen- 

 tleman and a Gardener: containing the methods of making, 

 ordering, and improving a fruit and kitchen garden; together 

 with the manner of planting and cultivating flowers, plants, 

 and shrubs, necessary for the adorning of gardens, &c. 

 Vol. ii. containing the manner of planting and cultivating all 

 sorts of flowers, plants, and shrubs, necessary for the adorn- 

 ing of gardens; in which is explained, the art of making and 

 disposing of parterres, arbours of greens, wood works, arches, 

 columns, and other pieces and compartments usually found in 

 the most beautiful gardens of country seats. The whole en- 

 riched with variety of Figures, being a Translation from the 

 Sicur Louis Liger. To this volume is added, a Description 

 and Plan of Count Tallard's Garden, at Nottingham. The 

 whole revised by George London and Henry Wise. Printed 

 for Jacob Tonson, at Shakspeare's Head, over against Cathe- 

 rine-street in the Strand.'' This book, after giving the mode 

 of culture of most flowers, generally gives what the author 

 calls ils history. I will merely give its history of one flower: 



