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field fences, and planted hedgerow trees. He was 

 laird, farmer, and member of Parliament for Hadding- 

 tonshire from 1707 to 1741. 



JOHN GOULD VEITCH, of London, went to Japan in 

 1860, from whence he sent home many rare trees arid 

 shrubs, and was the first European to go to the top of 

 the sacred mountain called Fusi Yama, 4000 feet high, 

 in the island of Nippon. He was born April 1839, 

 and died August 1870. 



JOHN MATHIESON, Esq., Ardross Castle, Eoss-shire, 

 planted and beautified his Ardross and other estates in 

 a way and manner, and to such an extent, as few 

 landed proprietors have ever done. 



JOHN EVELYN, F.E.S., author of the ' Sylva,' pub- 

 lished 1662. He was born at Wotton 1620, and 

 died 1706 in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He 

 wrote extensively on tree-culture, and many other 

 subjects as well. His ' Sylva ' is very interesting- 

 reading, and though much of his teaching is specula- 

 tive and fanciful rather than practical, yet no small 

 amount of instruction may be acquired by reading it. 

 He planted the great chestnut-trees in Windsor Park, 

 which are now 240 years old. . 



JOHN EOBINSON, Esq., Sion, near London, planted in 

 Great Windsor Park, during fourteen years from 1790 

 to 1804, 11,225,000 acorns. He was ranger of the 

 park at that time, and his daughter was the present 

 Marquis of Abergavenny's grandmother. 



JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON, born 1782, and died 

 1842, wrote many books- on tree-culture, and contri- 



