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2. Discourse of Infinite Treasure, hidden since the 

 World's beginning, in the way of Husbandry; 1632, 1653, 

 1656, 4to.* 



WILLIAM LAWSON published in 1597, A New Orchard and 

 Garden, in 4to. Other editions, in4to., in 1623, and 1626. 

 His singular assertions are treated with great candor by the 

 author of Herefordshire Orchards, " for I thought I found 

 many signs of honesty and integrity in the man, a sound, 

 clear, natural wit." 



SIMON HARWARD published in 1597, a Treatise on the 

 Art of propagating Vegetables; and annexed it to Lawson's 

 New Orchard and Garden, 



THOMAS JOHNSON, the learned editor of the enlarged and 

 valuable edition of Gerarde. Wood calls him " the best 



* The fate of this poor man reminds one of what is related of Corregio: 

 " He received from the mean canons of Parma, for his Assumption of the 

 Virgin, the small pittance of two hundred livres, and it was paid him in 

 copper. He hastened with the money to his starving family; but as he had 

 six or eight miles to travel from Parma, the weight of his burden, and the 

 heat of the climate, added to the oppression of his breaking heart, a pleurisy 

 attacked him, which, in three days, terminated his existence and his sorrows 

 in his fortieth year." 



If one could discover a portrait of either of the authors mentioned in the 

 foregoing list, one might, I think, inscribe under each of such portraits, 

 these verses : 



Ce pourtrait et maint liure 



Par le peintre et 1'escrit, 



Feront reuoir et viure 



Ta face et ton esprit. 



They are inscribed under an ancient portrait, done in 1555, which Mr. 

 Dibdin has preserved in his account of Caen, and which he thus introduces : 

 "As we love to be made acquainted with the persons of those from whom we 

 have received instruction and pleasure, so take, gentle reader, a representa- 

 tion of Bourgueville." 



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