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us that there are about London that do make yearly 200 

 an acre by gardening, but as he also tells us to graft 

 Apples, Roses, and Vines on Cherry Stocks, he cannot be 

 considered a reliable authority. 



About this period Dr John Beale wrote several treatises 

 on orchards and fruit trees of considerable merit. " The 

 Gardens of Cyrus," by Sir Thomas Browne, also attracted 

 some attention at this time. But John Evelyn, by the 

 translation of "The French Gardener " and " The Complete 

 Gardener," and the publication of " The Sylva Terra and 

 Pomona " and " The Kalendarium Hortense," gave a great 

 stimulus to gardening. These works, as may be sup- 

 posed, were elegantly written, and written by one who 

 understood the subject and took a deep interest in it. 

 Robert Sharrock, Fellow of New College, Oxford, was the 

 author of two books on gardening, one "The History 

 of the Propagation and Improvement of Vegetables," in 

 1660, the other "An Improvement to the Art of Garden- 

 ing," published in 1694. These are good books, and would 

 doubtless be very welcome to many in those days. The 

 "Flora Ceres and Pomona" of John Rea was published 

 in 1665. It is a folio volume illustrated with numerous 

 formal plans for flower gardens, and copious lists of flowers, 

 fruits, and trees. John Worlidge wrote several works on 

 rural affairs. " Systema Agriculture" (1669) and " Systema 

 Horticulture " (1677) both treat of gardening, and are not 

 without merit. Drope published a small book on fruit 

 trees in 1672 ; it is full of sound instruction, which appears 

 to have been gathered from experience. 



"The Planter's Manual," by Charles Cotton (1675), is a 

 work on fruit trees only, and gives lists of the best sorts of 

 fruits and pears for every month of the year. Moses Cooke 

 wrote a book on forest and fruit trees (1679), which was an 

 , authority in its day, aud passed through several editions. 

 Another work on fruit trees by T. Langford (1681) was 

 considered in its day a book of considerable merit, and 

 contains at the end a few pages " Of greens and green- 



