184 



ture of Country, &c. The Encyclop. of Gardening calls 

 this " a most interesting work." A writer in the New 

 Monthly Mag. says " it displays an almost unlimited extent 

 of learning and research. 



4. An Historical View of the Taste for Gardening and 

 Laying out Grounds among the Nations of Antiquity. 8vo. 

 Is. 6d. 1783. Dilly. 



A list of his other works (nearly twenty in number), may 

 be seen in the Dictionary of Living Authors, or in vol. xii. 

 of the New Monthly Mag. ; which last work says that the 

 late Lord Thurlow, at whose table he was almost a constant 

 guest, declared that " he never saw such a man ; that he 

 knew every thing, and knew it better than any one else." 

 Neither this last publication, nor Dr. Watts in his Bibl. 

 Brit, mention Dr. Falconer's Historical View of the Taste 

 for Gardening. 



William Curtis. This honest, much-esteemed, and inof- 

 fensive man, though so deservedly eminent as a botanist, 

 published only the following work on horticulture : — " Direc- 

 tions for Cultivating the Crambe Maritima, or Sea-kale for 

 the Use of the Table." A new edition, enlarged, with three 

 enoravings. 2s. 6d. Mr. Loudon says, that this pamphlet 

 has done more to recommend the culture of sea-kale and dif- 

 fuse the knowledge of it, than all his predecessors. Nearly 

 three pages of the Encyclopaedia are enriched with the re- 

 sult of all that has appeared on the cultivation of this vege- 

 table by English, Scotch, or French writers. 



The botanical works of Mr. Curtis have long been held in 

 high esteem. The first number of his Flora Londinensis 

 appeared in 1777. He commenced his Botanical Magazine 

 in 1 787. His Observations on British Grasses, appeared in 



