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Page 17. — I have in this page alluded to the hard fate of 

 Correggio. That my reader may know who he was, let him 

 inspect those pages in vol. i. of Sir U. Price's Essays, where 

 he thus concludes a critique on his genius : " I believe that 

 if a variety of persons, conversant in painting, were asked 

 what pictures (taking every circumstance together) appeared 

 to them most beautiful, and had left the softest and most 

 pleasing impression, — the majority would fix upon Correggio." 



Page 17. — W. Lawson, in the dedication to his New 

 Orchard and Garden, gives the name of an author on gar- 

 dening, whose book I have not met with. He dedicates it 

 " to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Bclosses" and he ac- 

 knowledges, " 1st. the many courtesies you have vouchsaved 

 me. 2dly. your delightfull skill in matters of this nature, 

 .'idly, the profit which I received from your learned discourse 

 of Fruit-trees. 4thly. your animating and assisting of others 

 to such endeavours. Last of all, the rare worke of your 

 owne in this kind, all which to publish under your protec- 

 tion, 1 have adventured as you see." From this it would ap- 

 pear, that this " learned discourse" is transfused into the 

 New Orchard and Garden. After all, perhaps, this " learn- 

 ed discourse" was merely in conversation. At all events, it 

 has recorded the name of Sir Henry as warmly devoted to 

 orcharding, or to horticulture. W. Lawson, in his preface, 

 dwells upon the praises of this art, " how some, and not a 

 few of the best, have accounted it a chiefe part of earthly 

 happinesse to have faire and pleasant orchards — how ancient, 

 how profitable, how pleasant it is.' 3 His fourteenth chapter 

 is On the Age of Fruit-trees. After stating that some " shall 

 dure 1000 years," and the age of many of the apple-trees in 

 his little orchard, he says: " If my trees be 100 yeares old, 

 and yet want 200 of their growth before they leave increas- 

 ing, which make 800, then we must needs resolve, that this 

 300 yeere are but the third part of a tree's life, because (as 



