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And in his preface to this last work, he says, " My princi- 

 pal design being not only to excite or animate such as have 

 fair estates, and pleasant seats in the country, to adorn and 

 beautifie them; but to encourage the honest and plain coun- 

 tryman in the improvement of his Ville, by enlarging the 

 bounds and limits of his Gardens, as well as his Orchards, 

 for the encrease of such esculent plants as may be useful and 

 beneficial to himself and his neighbors." 



FRANCIS DROPE, B. D., who died at Oxford, and whose 

 father was Vicar of Cumner, in Berkshire, Wood, in his 

 Athenae, says, " he hath written on a subject which he much 

 delighted in, and wherein he spent much time, but which was 

 n ot published till his death: A short and sure guide to the 

 practice of raising, and ordering of fruit trees, Oxford, 1672, 

 12mo.. a large and laudable account of which you may see in 

 the Phil. Trans. No. 86, p. 10, 49." 



MOSES COOKE, Gardener to the Earl of Essex, at Cashio- 

 bury, afterwards a partner with Lucre, Field and London, in 

 the Brompton Park Nursery. He wrote " The Art of making 

 Cyder," published in Mr. Evelyn's works. The manner of 

 raising Forest Trees, 4to. 1 696. Other editions in 8vo. in 

 1717, 1724 } and 1770. Mr. Evelyn (speaking of Cashiobury) 

 says, " The gardens are very rare, and cannot be otherwise, 



the ingenious early in the spring mornings, that they have the benefit of 

 the sweet and pleasant morning air, which many through sluggishness en- 

 joy not; so that health (the greatest treasure that mortals enjoy) and plea- 

 sure, go hand in hand in this exercise. What can be more said of it, than 

 that the most ingenious, most use it." Mr. Whately, in his usual charming 

 style, thus paints the spring : " Whatever tends to animate the scene, ac- 

 cords with the season, which is full of youth and vigour, fresh and sprightly, 

 brightened by the verdure of the herbage, and the woods, gay with blos- 

 soms, and flowers, and enlivened by the songs of the birds in all their 

 variety, from the rude joy of the skylark, to the delicacy of the nightin- 

 gale." 



