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of old herbs, and a curious fence of sword-blades, 

 which are said to have been collected on the field of 

 Culloden," 



Such notices as these, brief and imperfect 

 as they are, of the numerous seats in early 

 suburban London, more especially in Old 

 Brompton, Kensington, Putney, and Fulham, 

 are what we should have desired to possess, 

 and are sorry to have lost for ever, except in 

 a few isolated and accidental cases, or to such 

 a limited extent as Felton has rescued them 

 from oblivion. 



A conversance with the arts of planting 

 and grafting was promoted by a curious 

 Elizabethan publication, which purports to 

 have been rendered into English from two 

 distinct sources a French book by a brother 

 of the Abbey of St. Vincent, and a Dutch 

 one, of which the author is not suggested. 

 The English editor was Leonard Mascall, 

 and the volume became popular. It doubt- 

 less supplied a want, and was reprinted 

 several times between 1569 and 1596. 

 Mascall, who is known as the compiler of 

 two or three other treatises on husbandry and 



