Chap. I. of GARDENING, &^c. 51^ 



He liv'd iri the Time of CteJm, aiid'#n^ 

 in Obedience to his Command, as may, be 

 feen in the i ith Book, Cap.i^;^^{^'l'";:t^ -^ 



Palladius is the laft in thai Lift f Bendes>aiiaiims. 

 the other part of his Treatife, he publifli'd 

 a Kalendarhm Rujlicum (from which Mr, F-' 

 velyn feems to take his Method in his Kalenda-: 

 rium Hontenfe) full of excellent Rules to be 

 performed every Month in the Year 5 and al-! 

 fo Tables of the Increafe and Decreafe or 

 Time. Thofe four Authors contain the 

 Subftance of the Roman Praftice in the Field' 

 and Garden. 



But the finlfliing Part was left to Pliny, ^-p^mj. 

 caird P links Secundits Isfovocomenfa -^ he was 

 ah Author in Fefpajians Time, as appears by 

 hi^ Preface to that Prince. 



He writ his Natural Hi/Iorj at leifur^' 

 tit^esi, having feveral great Employs under^ 

 V^fpiifian, to whom he dedicated it. This 

 Hidory confifted of Thirty feven Books, of 

 which thofe concerning Gatdedihg, &c, 

 were not the Itaft elaborate and Valilabie. 

 By his placing the Names of Authors, out 

 of which he eoUcfted his Precepts, in the 

 Order he has, it may be fuppos'd he was no 

 manual and praftical Gardener, but rather 

 a CoUater out of other Men's Works : How- 

 ever a great deal is due to that laborious Au- 

 thor 5 for befides, the many Philofophical 

 Tenets of //^m and Agriculture, he reduc'd 

 in his Time the Pradice of it, efpecially 

 in Raifing Trees, into a few compendious 



Rules, 



