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Pliny, and other Ret rustica scriptores. His chapter OH 

 Pears, (the various kinds of which possess " a profusion of 

 sweets, heightened by an endless variety of delicious fla- 

 vours/') is particularly profuse. So is that on Apples. 



JAMES RUTTER published, in 1767, Modern" Eden, or the 

 Gardener's Universal Guide; 8vo. 



JOHN DICKS published, in 1769, The New Gardener J u 

 Dictionary ; in sixty numbers, small folio, 30s. Blyth. 



JAMES GARTON published, in 1769, The Practical Gar- 

 dener; 8vo. 3s. Dilly. 



WILDMAX published, in 1768, a Treatise on the 



Culture of Pear Trees: to which is added, a Treatise on the 

 Management of Bees ; 1 2mo. Dublin. 



ANTHONY POWEL, ESQ. Gardener to George II. pub- 

 lished The Royal Gardener; 12mo. 1769. 



OCKENDEN, ESQ. published, in 1770, Letters, de- 

 scribing the Lake of Killarney, and Rueness's Gardens; 8vo. 

 Dublin. 



THOMAS HITT published his Treatise on Fruit Trees, 8vo. 

 1775. A third edition in 1768. Mr. Loudon calls it "an 

 original work, valuable for its mode of training trees." He 

 also published, in 1760, a Treatise on Husbandry; 8vo. 

 3s. 



ADAM TAYLOR, Gardener to J. Sutton, Esq. at New Park, 

 near Devizes, published a Treatise on the Ananas, or Pine 

 Apple: containing Plain and Easy Directions for Raising 

 this most excellent Fruit without Fire, and in much higher 



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