Evelyris " French Gardener? 3 I 



have not seen ; the third has some plates by 

 Hertochs, and, as I shall presently explain, 

 an additional tract at the end. Evelyn, it 

 seems, had met Henshaw abroad, and speaks 

 of him as an old acquaintance. The French 

 Gardener was regarded by the translator as 

 the best extant production on the subjects 

 of which it treated. In the preface he 

 observes : 



" I advertize the Reader, that what I have couched 

 in four sections at the end of this Volume, under the 

 name of an Appendix, is but a part of the Third 

 Treatise in the Original ; there remaining three Chapters 

 more concerning preserving of fruits with sugar, which 

 I have heretofore expressly omitted, because it is a 

 mystery that I am assured by a lady (who is a person 

 of quality, and curious in that art) that there is 

 nothing of extraordinary amongst them, but what the 

 fair sex do infinitely exceed, whenever they please to 

 divertise themselves in that sweet employment." 



Beyond the mere technical interest of thi? 

 volume, which time and experience have 

 probably much lessened, there is a charm 

 and a tone about it, which can only belong 

 to a book produced by a man of letters and 

 an enthusiast. At page 108 occurs " A 



