42 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



as Charles Lamb would have put it, we would 

 much rather not not have; for it is replete 

 with instruction and interest. The author 

 was one of those men who wrote from a 

 love of the subject, begetting practical ex- 

 perience and insight. We shall never know 

 how much we owe in the waxing taste about 

 this time for such studies to the example and 

 stimulus of Evelyn. 



The Scots' Gardener, by John Reid (1683), 

 is the parent-production in this class of litera- 

 ture, and purports to have been compiled by 

 a practical observer with a special view to 

 the climate of Scotland. It is divided into 

 two portions, of which the first is occupied 

 by technical instructions for the choice of a 

 site for the garden, the arrangement of the 

 beds and walks, and other particulars, all 

 tending to shew that the author had in his 

 eye exclusively the richer class of patrons, 

 who could afford to carry out operations on 

 an ambitious and costly scale. The book 

 concludes with a calendar. 



Reid furnishes very explicit rules for graft- 

 ing, pruning, and propagating by seed, cutting, 



