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Hackney, and there started a nursery garden. His first book, 

 Every Man Ms own Gardener, came out in 1767, and he 

 was so afraid of failure that he paid Mawe, gardener to the 

 Duke of Leeds, the sum of 20 to allow his name also to 

 appear on the title-page. Hence the book has become known 

 as the work of Mawe and Abercrombie, although the latter 

 wrote it entirely. His other writings, Amateur Gardening, 

 The Gardener's Daily Assistant, and such like, were equally 

 popular. Another book of this date, by Wm. Hanbury, also 

 gives full directions for the cultivation of a great number of 

 trees, shrubs, perennial and annual hardy flowers, and green- 

 house and stove plants.* Among those mentioned in these 

 books we find many things which had just been introduced, 

 such as the Pontic Rhododendron, Azalea nudiflora, or 

 " American upright honeysuckle," as Hanbury calls it ; 

 Andromeda polifolia, varieties of Allspice (Calycanthus) of 

 Sumach (Rhus) and of Magnolia (grandiflora and others), the 

 snowdrop tree (Halesia), Hydrangias, and Spireas, and other 

 hardy plants. There were also many additions to the half 

 hardy and stove plants. Crinum capense or " lily Asphodel," 

 and the more tender Belladonna lily (Amaryllis Belladonna}. 

 The Scarborough lily (Vallota purpurea) appeared about this 

 time ; the same kind of story being told of its origin as of 

 that of the Guernsey lily (Nerine sarniensis), which was said 

 to have grown in Guernsey from bulbs washed ashore from a 

 wreck of a ship from Japan about 1659. The camellia or 

 " Japanese rose " (Camellia japonica) was grown by the 

 middle of the eighteenth century. The " gardenia, or the 

 Cape Jasmine " (Gardenia florida), Plumbago (rosea) and other 

 " tender sorts of leadwort," the Gloriosa superba, and 

 Allamanda (Allamanda cathartica) were among the climbing 

 plants which adorned the stove. 



Some families of plants were becoming so conspicuous as 

 to have a special literature of their own. The geraniums and 

 heaths were treated of by Andrews, the Mesembryanthemums 



* Complete Body of Planting and Gardening. By Wm. Hanbury, 1770. 

 2 vols. folio. 



