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called The Making of Fish Ponds, Breeding Fish, and 

 Planting Fruits. Printed several times, says Wood, in his 

 Athense. 



RICHARD BRADLEY. The Encyclopaedia of Gardening 

 pronounces him " a popular writer of very considerable ta- 

 lent, and indefatigable industry;" and speaks highly of the 

 interesting knowledge diffused through his very numerous 

 works, and gives a distinct list of them; so does Mr. Nicholls, 

 in his Life of Bowyer; and Mr. Weston, in his Tracts, and 

 Dr. Watts, in his Bib. Britt. In Mr. Bradley's " New Im- 

 provements of Planting and Gardening," he has added the 

 whole of that scarce Tract of Dr. Beale's, the Herefordshire 

 Orchards. One could wish to obtain his portrait, were it 

 only from his pen so well painting the alluring charms of 

 flowers: " Primroses and Cowslips, may be planted near the 

 edges of borders, and near houses, for the sake of their 

 pretty smell. I recommend the planting some of the com- 

 mon sorts that grow wild in the woods, in some of the most 

 rural places about the house; for I think nothing can be 

 more delightful, than to see great numbers of these flowers, 



dening this age has produced, I mean the Right Honourable the Lord Cas- 

 tlemain." 



"The late noble and most publick spirited encourager of arts and sciences, 

 especially gardening, his Grace the Duke of Montague, at Ditton." 



" The Elrouge Nectarine is also a native of our own, the name being the 

 reverse of Gourle, a famous Nurseryman at Hogsden, in King Charles the 

 Second's time, by whom it was raised." 



And speaking of the successful cultivation of vines in the open air, he re- 

 fers to the garden of a Mr. Rigaud, near Swallow-street; and to another great 

 cultivator of the vine, "of whose friendship I have proof, the Rev. Mr. Only, 

 of Cottesmore, in Rutland, some time since deceased; one of the most curious 

 lovers of gardening that this or any other age has produced." This gentle- 

 man, in 1765, published "An Account of the care taken in most civilized 

 nations for the relief of the poor, more particularly in the time of scarcity 

 and distress;" 4to. Is. Davis. I believe the same gentleman also published* 

 in 1765, a Treatise " Of the Price of Wheat." 



