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manner, from the year 1780 to his death, the plan he origin- 

 ally laid down; that of collecting and condensing the agricul- 

 tural practices of the different counties of England, with a 

 view to a general work on Landed Property, which he pub- 

 lished; another on Agriculture, which he did not live to 

 complete, and a Rural Institute, in which he was supplanted 

 by the Board of Agriculture." His observations on the 

 Larch, in vol. i. of his " Planting and Rural Ornament," and 

 the zeal with which he recommends the planting of it on the 

 infertile heathy flats of Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, on 

 the bleak and barren heights of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, 

 Cornwall, and Devon, and on the Welch and Salopean hills ; 

 and the powerful language with which he enforces its valua- 

 ble qualities, merit the attention of every man of property. 



William Speechly. He wrote Hints on Domestic Rural 

 Economy; 8vo. On the Culture of the Vine and Pine Apple, 

 with Hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England. On 

 the Culture of the Pine Apple, and the Management of the 

 Hot-House; 8vo. lie made a tour in Holland, chiefly to 

 observe the Dutch mode of cultivating the Pine, and the 

 Grape. Mr. Loudon, in his Encyclop. calls him " the Moses 

 of modern British vine dressers;" and in the Gardener's Ma- 

 gazine for January, 1828, has given an interesting and ho- 

 nourable character of him. He died at Great Milton, in 

 1819, aged eighty-six.* Marshall, in his Planting and Rural 



• Perhaps it may gratify those who seek for health, by their attachment 

 to gardens, to note the age that some of our English horticulturists have 

 attained to : — Parkinson died at about 78; Tradescant, the father, died 

 an old man; Switzer, about 80; Sir Thomas Browne died at 77; Evelyn, 

 at 86; Dr. Beale, at 80; Jacob Bobart, at 85; Collinson, at 75; a son of 

 Dr. Lawrence (equally fond of gardens as his father) at 86; Bishop Comp- 

 ton, at 81 ; Bridgman, at an advanced age; Knowlton, gardener to Lord Bur- 

 lington, at 90; Miller, at 80; James Lie, at an advanced age; Lord Karnes, 

 at 86; Abercrombie, at 80; the Rev. Mr. Gilpin, at 80; Duncan, a gardener, 



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