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THOMAS FAIRCHILD, whose garden and vineyard at Hox- 

 ton, Mr. Bradley mentions in high terms, in numberless 

 pages of his many works. I will merely quote from one of 

 his works, viz. from his Philosophical Account of the Works 

 of Nature: "that curious garden of Mr. Thomas Fairchild, 

 at Hoxton, where I find the greatest collection of fruits that 

 I have yet seen, and so regularly disposed, both for order in 

 time of ripening and good pruning of the several kinds, that 

 I do not know any person in Europe to excel him in that 

 particular; and in other things he is no less happy in his 

 choice of such curiosities, as a good judgement and universal 

 correspondence can procure." Mr. Fairchild published The 

 City Gardener; 8vo. 1722, price Is. He corresponded with 

 Linnaeus. He left funds for a Botanical Sermon to be deli- 

 vered annually at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, on each Whitsun 

 Tuesday, " On the wonderful works of God in the creation, 

 or on the certainty of the resurrection of the dead, proved 

 by the certain changes of the animal and vegetable parts of 

 the creation."* Dr. Pulteney thus speaks of Mr. Fairchild: 

 " My plan does not allow me to deviate so far as to cite 

 authors on the subject of gardening, unless eminent for their 



author by the Rev. Mr. Lawrence. From page 103, 105, 129 and 141, one 

 should think this was not the son of the famous Mr. Evelyn. I now find, 

 that Mr. Lawrence, in the Preface to his Kalendar, inserted at the end of 

 his fifth edition, assures the public, " that the book called the Lady's Re- 

 creation could not be published by my approbation, because it was never 

 seen by me till it was in print; besides, I have reason to think it was an 

 artifice of the booksellers to impose upon the world, under the borrowed 

 name of Evelyn." 



* This sermon was preached for several years by Dr. Colin Milne, by 

 whom it was published in 1799, and afterwards by the Rev. Mr. Ellis, of 

 Merchant Taylors' School. Mr. Ellis, in his History of Shoreditch, gives 

 us much information as to this bequest; in which the handsome conduct of 

 Mr. Denne, a former vicar, is not the least interesting. Mr. Nichols, in 

 vol. iii. of his Literary Anecdotes, bears testimony to Dr. Denne's feeling 

 towards the poor and distressed, and to his attachment to literary pursuits. 



