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cultural subjects ; founder of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture. He was more an experimental and practical 

 agriculturist and planter than a writer, although he 

 wrote very extensively. He wrote an account of the 

 effects of barking fruit-trees to improve the fruit, &c. 



OTHER PLANTERS NAMED JOHN. 



The Eev. JOHN BROWN, Haddington, who died June 

 1787, wrote in his 'Dictionary of the Bible' all that 

 could well be said of trees mentioned in sacred 

 writings. 



The Eev. JOHN TRUSLER, LL.D., a singular literary 

 character, was born in London in 1725. He was 

 brought up to physic, but contrived to get into holy 

 orders, and officiated as curate. In 1771 he began 

 to publish sermons. He next established a bookselling 

 business upon an extensive scale, acquired a fortune, 

 and purchased an estate at Enfield Green, where he 

 died in 1820. He also wrote ' The Art of Gardening,' 

 and 'The Lady's Gardener's Companion' 



JOHN EEID wrote the ' Scot's Gardener ' for the 

 climate of Scotland, and gave many directions for 

 planting trees, in 1721. 



JOHN LINDLEY, the greatest botanist and writer on 

 trees and shrubs in any age. He was editor of the 

 ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' for a quarter of a century. 



JOHN COCKBURN, Esq. of Ormiston, Haddingtonshire, 

 succeeded his father in the estate in 1714. He was 

 eminent alike in agriculture as in arboriculture. He 

 was the first who constructed hedges and ditches for 



