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dar." The following is part of their Preface: " The great- 

 est persons, in all ages, have been desirous of a country 

 retirement, where every thing appears in its native simplicity. 

 The inhabitants are religious, the fair sex modest, and every 

 countenance bears a picture of the heart. What, therefore, 

 can be a more elegant amusement, to a good and great man, 

 than to inspect the beautiful product of fields and gardens, 

 when every month hath its pleasing variety of plants and 

 flowers. And if innocence be our greatest happiness, where 

 can we find it but in a country life? In fields and gardens 

 we have pleasures unenvied, and beauties unsought for; and 

 any discovery for the improvement of them, is highly praise- 

 worthy. In the growth of a plant, or a tree, we view the 

 progress of nature, and ever observe that all her works yield 

 beauty and entertainment. To cultivate this beauty, is a 

 task becoming the wealthy, the polite, and the learned; this 

 is so generally understood, that there are few gentlemen of 

 late, who are not themselves their chief gardeners. And it 

 certainly redounds more to the honour and satisfaction of a 

 gardener, that he is a preserver and pruner of all sorts of 

 fruit trees, than it does to the happiness of the greatest 

 general that he has been successful in killing mankind." 



SAMUEL TROWEL, of Poplar, published, in 1739, A New 

 Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening; 12mo. 2s. 6d. This 

 was translated in Germain, at Leipsig, 1750, in Svo. 



REV. FRANCIS COVENTRY, who wrote an admirable paper 

 in the World, (No. 15,) on the absurd novelties introduced 

 in gardens. He wrote Penshurst, in Dodsley's Poems. 



JAMES JUSTICE, ESQ. published the " Scot's Gardener's 

 Director," Svo. A new edition, entitled " The British Gar- 

 dener's Director, chiefly adapted to the Climate of the 

 Northern Counties," was published at Edinburgh, 1764, Svo. 



