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Our own strict judges, our past life we scan, 

 And ask if glory have enlarg'd the span. 

 If bright the prospect, we the grave defy, 

 Trust future ages, and contented die. 



The following appear to have been his works: 



1. The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recrea- 

 tion; or an Introduction to Gardening, Planting, Agricul- 

 ture, and the other Business and Pleasures of a Country 

 Life. By Stephen Switzer; 1715, 8vo. Another edition in 

 1717, 8vo. The year afterwards, it was published with the 

 following title: 



. Icknographia Rustica; or, the Nobleman, Gentleman, 

 and Gardener's Recreation: containing Directions for the 

 general Distribution of a Country Seat into rural and exten- 

 sive Gardens, Parks, Paddocks, &c. ; and a General System 

 of Agriculture; illustrated by a great variety of Copper- 

 plates, done by the first hands, from the Authors Drawings. 

 By Stephen Switzer, Gardener: several years Servant to 

 Mr. London, and Mr. Wise. 3 vols. 8vo. 1718. 



3. A Compendious Method for Raising Italian Brocoli, 

 Cardoon, Celeriac, arid other Foreign Kitchen Vegetables; 

 as also an Account of Lucerne, St. Foyne, Clover, and other 

 Grass Seeds, with the Method of Burning of Clay; 8vo. 1729. 

 Fifth edition, 8vo. 1731, Is. 6d.* 



* At page 24 he says, " Cato, one of the most celebrated writers on 

 Husbandry and Gardening among the Romans, (who, as appears by his 

 Introduction, took the model of his precepts from the Greeks) in his excel- 

 lent Treatise De Re Rustica, has given so great an encomium on the excel- 

 lence and uses of this good plant, (the Brocoli) not only as to its goodness 

 in eating, but also in physick and pharmacy, that makes it esteemed one of 

 the best plants cither the field or garden produces." 



