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1748. Sir William Watson (continued). A Letter to Andrew Ducarel. 



London, 1774. 4to. 

 1750. D. C. J. Trew. Plantse selectse qvarvm .... natvralia Londini in 



Hortis Cvriosorvum nvtrita. 1750-73. Imp. folio. 3 portraits 



and 100 coloured plates. 

 William John Halfpenny. Rural Architecture in the Chinese 



taste, being designs for the decoration of gardens, &c. 4 parts. 



with 60 plates. London, 1750. 8vo. 



another edition 1755. 



1752. Attiret-Beaumont. A Particular Account of the Emperor of China's 



Gardens near Pekin, by F. Attiret (a French missionary). Trans- 

 lated by Sir Harry Beaumont. London, 1752. 



Said by Johnson to be by Joseph Spence, D.D., and dated 1757. 



James Newton. Compleat Herbal. London, 1752. 8vo. 



a new edition, 1805. 



1753. W. Webb. A Catalogue of Seeds and Roots under their proper heads. 



1753. 



Francis Coventry. Essay in "The World" of April 12th, 1753 

 (No. XV.), entitled, " Strictures on the absurd novelties intro- 

 duced in Gardening," and a humorous description of Squire 

 Mushroom's Villa. 1753. * 



Bartholomew Rocque. A Treatise on the Hyacinth, &c. London, 

 1753- 



A Practical Treatise on cultivating Lucerne-Grass, &c. London, 



1775- 



1754. James Justice. The Scot's Gardener's Director. Edinburgh, 1754. 



The British Gardener's Calendar, etc. Edinburgh, 1759. 



The Scot's Gardener's Director. By a Gentleman, one of the 



members of the Royal Society [Dedication is signed by Ja. Justice]. 



Second edition. Edinburgh, 1759. 8vo. 



The British Gardener's Director. Edinburgh, 1764. 



The Useful Herbal. Anonymous. London, 1754. 8vo. 



Edward Knight. " Dover's Legacy, The British Legacy or Fountain 



of Knowledge," containing " The Gardener's Legacy," by Edward 



Knight. London, 1754. 8vo. 



1755. John Dalton, d.d. Some thoughts on Building and planting, ad- 



dressed to Sir James Lowther, Bart. London, 1755. 4*0. 



1756. On the Heat and Cold of Hot-houses. Anonymous. London, 1756. 



8vo. * 



Timothy Sheldrake (the elder). Gardener's Best Companion in a 

 Greenhouse. London [c. 1756]. Folio. 



An Herbal of Medicinal Plants, etc. London [c. 1759]- 



John Hill, m.d. (Sir J. H.). The British Herbal, an History of 

 plants . . cultivated for use or raised for Beauty. London, 1756. 

 FoUo. 



The Sleep of Plants and Cause of Motion in the Sensitive Plant. 



A letter to C. Linnaeus. 1757. 



Exotic Botany. . . . Explaining the Sexual System. 1759- Roy- 



folio.Tplates. 



