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perfection than from the Stove; to which are added, Full 

 Directions for Raising Melons. Devizes, 8vo. 1769. 



James Meader, Gardener at Sion House, and afterwards 

 to the Empress Catharine. He published, in 1771, in 12mo. 

 The Modern Gardener, &c. in a manner never before pub- 

 lished; selected from the Diary MSS. of the late Mr. Hitt. 

 Also, The Planter's Guide, or Pleasure Gardener's Compa- 

 nion; with plates, 1779, oblong 4to. 



Richard Weston, Esq. an amateur gardener, who has 

 given, at the end of his " Tracts on Practical Agriculture, 

 and Gardening," 1762, Svo. a Catalogue of English Authors 

 on Agriculture, Gardening, &c. There is another edition 

 in 1773, with additions. His intelligent Catalogue is brought 

 down to the end of the year 1772. This volume of Tracts 

 contains an infinity of ingenious and curious articles. One 

 of the chapters contains "A Plan for Planting all the Turn- 

 pike Roads in England with Timber Trees."* He most 

 zealously wishes to encourage planting. "I believe (says 

 this candid writer) that one of the principal reasons why few 

 persons plant, springs from a fearful conjecture that their 

 days will have been passed, before the forest can have risen. 

 But let not the parent harbour so selfish an idea; it should 

 be his delight, to look forward to the advantage which his 

 children would receive from the timber which he planted, 

 contented if it flourished every year beneath his inspection; 

 surely there is much more pleasure in planting of trees, than 

 in cutting of them down. View but the place where a fine 

 tree stands, what an emblem does it afford of present beauty 

 and of future use; examine the spot after the noble ornament 

 shall have been felled, and see how desolate it will appear. 

 Perhaps there is not a better method of inducing youth to have 



* The thought of planting the sides of public roads, was first suggested 

 bv the great Sully. 



