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John James, who translated Le Blond's "Theory and 

 Practice of Gardening, wherein is fully handled all that re- 

 lates to fine gardens, commonly called Pleasure-gardens," 

 cuts, 4to. 1712. 



M. Stevenson published in small 4to. 1661, a book called 

 The Twelve Months, being a Treatise on Husbandry and 

 Gardening. 



The Rev. Henry Stevenson, of East Retford, published 

 " The Young Gardener's Director," 1716, 12mo. He has 

 introduced Mr. Evelyn's advice as to having salads in each 

 month. There is a neat cut of flower-knots, and the frontis- 

 piece exhibits a curious, old garden. In the preface he says, 

 "not to mention the profit to a family, nothing conduces 

 more to a man's health, especially to one that lives a sedentary 

 life. If these observations and experiments I have made in 

 gardening, be of use to any by drawing him to a way of di- 

 version that will preserve his health, and perhaps put him 

 upon a meditation on the great works of the creation, let him 

 give the Creator the praise." He also published " The Gen- 

 tleman Gardener Instructed;" eighth edition, 12mo. 1769. 



David Stevenson, in 1746, published in 12mo. The Gen- 

 tleman Gardener Instructed. Is this the same book as the 

 above? 



Stephen Switzer, of whose private history so very little 



taken from the places whence they derive their extraction, and planted in 

 others of different qualities, betray such fondness for their native earth, that 

 with great difficulty they are brought to thrive in another; and in this it is 

 that the florist's art consists; for to humour each plant with the soil, the 

 sun, the shade, the degrees of dryness or moisture, and the neighbourhood 

 it delights in, (for there is a natural antipathy between some plants, inso- 

 much that they will not thrive near one another) are things not easily attain 

 able, but by a length of study and application." 



