MEMOIRS OF 



and in every fhade of each ; no implement 

 but her fcifibrs, not once her pencil ; yefc 

 never did painting prefent a more exacl 

 reprefentation of flowers of every colour, 

 fize, and cultivation, from the fimple hedge 

 ajid field-flower, to the moft complicated 

 foliage that Horticulture has multiplied. 

 This lady, once Mrs. Pendarvis, the friend 

 and correfpondent of Swift, and in her 

 later years honored by the friendfhip and 

 frequent viilts at Windfor, of the King, 

 Queen, and Princefles, began this her af- 

 tonifhing felf-invented work at the age of 

 feventy-four. The Poet here mifreprefents 

 her as being affifted by her virgin train. She 

 had no afliftant ; no hands, but her own, 

 formed one leaf or flower of the ten vo- 

 lumes. Her family were mortified by a 

 defcription which they juftly thought de- 

 graded her peculiar art; and remonftrated 

 with Dr. Darwin on the occafion, exprefl*- 

 ing a wifh that future editions might con- 



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