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hours while you line, and leaue behind you to heires or suc- 



ors (for God will make heires) such a worke, that many 



ages after your death, shall record your loue to their coun- 



'trey? And the rather, when you consider (chap. 14.) to 



what length of time your worke is like to last." 



Page 30. — Having briefly glanced in this page at the de- 

 light with which Sir H. Davy, Mr. Worlidge, and Mr. 

 Whateley, viewed the flowers of spring, I can only add this 

 reflection of Sturm : — " If there were no stronger proofs on 

 earth of the power, goodness, and wisdom of God, the 

 flowers of spring alone, would be sufficient to convince us 

 of it." 



Page 45. — The character of this modest and candid man, 

 (Switzer), has found an able advocate in the honest pen of 

 Mr. Johnson, who, in p. 159 of his History of Gardening, 

 after noticing the acrimony of his opponents, observes, 

 " Neglect has pursued him beyond the grave, for his works 

 are seldom mentioned or quoted as authorities of the age he 

 lived in. To me he appears to be the best author of his 

 time ; and if I was called upon to point out the classic au- 

 thors of gardening. Switzer should be one of the first on 

 whom I would lay my finger. His works evidence him at 

 once to have been a sound, practical horticulturist, a man 

 well versed in the botanical science of the day, in its most 

 enlarged sense." Mr. Johnson enumerates the distinct con- 

 tents of each chapter in the Iconologia — the Kitchen Gar- 

 dener — and the Fruit Gardener. 



Page 59. — The Tortworth Chesnut was growing previous 

 to the Norman Conquest. It fixes the boundary of a manor. 

 Even in the reign of Stephen, it was known as the great 

 chesnut of Tortworth. 



