192 JOHN EVELYN 



prefer them before the modern agriculture, so exceed- 

 ingly of late improv'd, for which you may consult & 

 compare our old Tusser, Markham, the Maison Rustic, 

 Hartlib, Walter Blith, the Philosophical Transactions, 

 & other books, which you know better than my selfe. 



I have turn'd down the page, where poore Palissy 

 begins his persisting search. If you can suffer his 

 prolix style, you will now & then light on things not 

 to be despised. With him I send you a short Treatise 

 concerning Metals, of Sir Hugh Platts, which perhaps 

 you have not seene. I am sorry I have no more of 

 those subjects here, having left the rest in my library at 

 Deptford, & know not how to get them hither till I 

 get thither. 



Sir, I am in no hast for the returne of these, if they 

 may be serviceable to you, but in no little paine for 

 the trouble your civility to mine puts one, who knows 

 so much better how to employ his time, than to mind 

 the impertinence of, Sir, your &c. 



Wotton, 28 Oct. 1696. 



