i 9 o JOHN EVELYN 



To Mr. Wotton. 



Worthy Sir, 



I should exceedingly mistake the person, and my 

 owne discernment, could I believe Mr. Wotton stood 

 in the least neede of my assistance ; but such an 

 expression of your's to one who so well knows his own 

 imperfections as I do mine, ought to be taken for a 

 reproche ; since I am sure it cannot proceede from 

 your judgment. But forgiving this fault, I most 

 heartily thank you for your animadversion on Sylva ; 

 which, tho' I frequently find it so written for f vXtta & 

 vX-q, wood, timber, wild & forest trees, yet indeede I 

 think it more properly belongs to a promiscuous casting 

 of severall things together, & as I think my Lord 

 Bacon has us'd it in his " Natural History," without 

 much reguard to method. Deleatur, therefore, wherever 

 you meete it. 



Concerning the Gardning & Husbandry of the 

 Antients, which is your inquirie (especialy of the first), 

 that it had certainely nothing approaching the elegancy 

 of the present age, Rapinus (whom I send you) will 

 aboundantly satisfie you. The discourse you will find 

 at the end of Hortorum, lib. 4 . capp. 6. 7. What 



