Chap. I • of gardening; €nc y^ 



fome Years ago, was, by a Perfon of Judg- 

 ment, and no great Friend to that Undef-i 

 taking, valu*d at between 30 and 40000 A- 

 (perhaps as much as all the Nurferies df 

 France put together.) nr/z-^: 



But now let us look, as I have already 

 hinted, amongft the Nobility and Gentry, 

 which at this Time were every-where bufied 

 in Making and Adorning their Gardens and^ 

 Plantations. To enumerate and fet down 

 the Hrftory of Gard'ning in its feveral Parti- 

 culars in this Reign, would require a Volume 

 of itfelf, but will be for the moft part 

 fumm'd up in tlie Perfon and Charafter of 

 George London Efq^ Superintendent of Theii'TWr.Loa- 

 Majefties Gardens, and Direftor-General of^°°' 

 moft of the Gardens and Plantations of 

 Great- Britain. 



I am not well enough informed, neither is 

 it material I fliould go back to the Birth and 

 Education of this eminent Gardiner 5 his 

 Indoiftry and Natural Parts foon and fuffi- 

 ciently recommended him tp the Nobility 

 and Gentry, that he* was courted and carefs'd 

 Bjrally fdtruelt-is. That the Gifts of Nature 

 ate much more valuable than thofe of Original 

 Birth and Fortune^ or even Learning itfelf: 

 And to the eternal Honour of the prefent Age 

 be it fpoken, never was Vertue, laudable In- 

 duftry, nor Art more encouraged, of which 

 the- Perfon we are here fpeaking of is an un- 

 deniable Inftancel- - - 



Khali 



