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Philosophical Letters . . 1718. 8vo. 



\'arious oiIilt works of this t-xccllcnl botanist are recorded in 

 Watt's Bibliotheca. His name was originally spelled Wray, but 

 he seems to have dropped the W hmiself. 



1664 John Forstek. England's Happiness Increased, or a sure 



and easie remedy against all succeeding Dear Years. 

 By a plantation of the roots called Potatoes. London, 



1664. 4to. 



Le Gexdre-Forstkk. The Manner of ordering Fruit 

 Trees . . by the Sieur Le Gendre. London, 1664. ■^ 

 " Sieur I,e Gendre "is a pseudonym for Robert Arnault 

 d'Andilly. The translator was John Forster. 



Stephen Blake. The Complete Gardener's Practice. 



London, 1664. 4to. 

 Jonathan Goduard, m.d. Observations concerning the 



texture and similar parts of a Tree. 



The Fruit Tree's Secrets. 



These treatises were papers read to the Royal Society, and were 

 only printed in Evelyn's Sylva in 1664. 



William Hughes. The Complete Vineyard, &c. London, 



1665. 4to. 



The Flower Garden, &c. London, 1671 and 1672. 



T2mo. 



The American Physician ; or a Treatise of the Roots, 



Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, Herbs, etc. growing in 

 the English Plantations . . London, 1672. i2mo. 



1665 John Rea. Flora, seu de Florum cultura; or a complete 



Florilege. London, 1665. Folio ^ 



Flora, Ceres, et Pomona. 1676. Folio 



An enlarged edition of the preceding. JoItu Rea, gentleman, 

 who was resident at Kinlct, near Bewdley, in Worcestershire, in 

 1676, is sometimes mistaken lor John Ray the learned Divine and 

 Naturalist, but the latter was nearly thirty years younger. 



Philosophical Transactions, published by the Royal 



Society, were begun in 1665 



The following are among the contributors to the early volumes 

 (before 1700) of papers on Botanical or Horticultural Subjects — 

 John Beaumont, James Cunningham, John Evelyn, Hon. Charles 

 Howard, Anthony van Eunwenhock, Martin Lister, Christopher 

 Merret, James Petiver, Robert Plott, John Ray, Richard 

 Richardson, Sir Hans Sloane, John Temple, Ezekiel Yonge. 



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