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Pope, in one of his letters to Mr. Allen, thus discovers his 

 own generous mind:—" I am now as busy in planting for my- 

 self as I was lately in planting for another. I am pleased to 

 think my trees will afford shade and fruit to others, when I 

 shall want them no more." Mr. Addison's admirable recom- 

 mendation of planting, forms No. 583 of the Spectator. He 

 therein says, "When a man considers that the putting a few 

 twigs in the ground, is doing good to one who will make his 

 appearance in the world about fifty years hence, or that he is 

 perhaps making one of his own descendants easy or rich, by 

 so inconsiderable an expence; if he finds himself averse to it, 

 he must conclude that he has a poor and base heart. Most 

 people are of the humour of an old fellow of a college, who, 

 when he was pressed by the society to come into something 



The Noveau Diet. Hist, thus speaks of him:— " II vint a Paris se faire re- 

 cevoi* avocat. Une eloquence naturelle, cultivee avec Bran, le fit briller dans 

 le Barreau, et lui consila l'estirae des premiers magistrals. Quoi qu'il eut 

 pen de temps dont il put disposer, il en trouvoit neanmoins suffisament pour 

 satisfaire la passion qu 'il avoit pour l'agriculture. II augmenta ses connois- 

 sances sur le jardinage, dans un voyage qu'il fit en Italie. De retour a Paris, 

 il se livra tout entier a l'agriculture, et fit un grand nombre d'experiences 

 curieuses et utiles. Le grand Prince de Conde, qui aimoit l'agriculture, pre- 

 noit une extreme plaisir a s'entretenir avec lui; et Charles II. Roi d'Angle- 

 terre hii omit une pension considerable pour l'attacher a la culture de ses 

 Jardins, mais il refusa ses offres avantageuses par l'amour qu'il avoit pour 

 sa patrie, et trouva en France les recompenses due a son merite. On a de 

 lui un excellent livre, intitule ' Instructions pour les Jardins Fruitiers et 

 Potaeers, Paris. 1725, 2 torn. 4to.' clphisieurs Lettres sar la mrme matiere." 

 Switzer, in his History of Gardening, says, that in Mods, de la Quintinye's 

 " Two Voyages into England, he gained considerable friendship with several 

 lords with whom he kept correspondence by letters till his death, and these 

 letters, says Perrault, are all printed at London." And he afterwards says, 

 speaking of Lord Capel's garden at Kew, " the greatest advance made by 

 him herein, was the bringing over several sorts of fruits from France; and 

 this noble lord we may suppose to be one that held for many years a cor- 

 respondence with Mons. de la Quintinye." Such letters on such correspond- 

 ence if ever printed, must be worth perusal. 



