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Ornament, has given us Mr. Speechley's sensible letter on 

 the Duke of Portland's Plantations. Mr. Johnson says " he 

 perhaps surpassed every practical gardener of his age." 



PHILIP LE BROCQ, chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester, 

 wrote, 



1 , A Description of Certain Methods of Planting, Train- 

 ing, and Managing all Kinds of Fruit Trees, Vines, &c. 

 London, 8vo. 1786. 



2, Sketch of a Plan for making the New Forest, a Real 

 Forest. StocMale, 8vo. 1793. 



WALTER NICIIOL, whom Mr. Loudon, in his Encyclopae- 

 dia, calls an author of merit, and informs us that Mr. Nichol, 

 " in the year 1810, undertook an extensive journey through 

 England, for the purpose of visiting the principal seats and 

 plantations, with a view, on his return, to compose the 

 Planter's Calendar. This work had scarcely commenced, 

 when he was seized with an illness which carried him off 

 suddenly, in March, 1811.'' His works appear to be the 

 following : 



upwards of 90; Hunter, who published Sylva, at 86; Speechley, at 86; Ho- 

 race Walpole, at 80; Mr. Bates, the celebrated and ancient horticulturist of 

 High Wickham, who died there in December, 1819, at the great age of 89; 

 Marshall, at an advanced age; Sir Jos. Banks, at 77; Joseph Cradock, at 

 85; James Dickson, at 89; Dr. Andrew Duncan, at 83; and Sir U. Price, 

 at 83. Mr. London, at page 1063 of his Encyclop. inform us, that a market 

 garden, and nursery, near Parson's Green, had been, for upwards of two 

 centuries, occupied by a family of the name of Rench; that one of them 

 (who instituted the first annual exhibition of flowers) died at the age of 

 ninety-nine years, having had thirty-three children ; and that his son (men- 

 tioned by Collinson, as famous for forest trees) introduced the moss-rose, 

 planted the elm trees now growing in the Bird-cage Walk, St. James's Park, 

 from trees reared in his own nursery, married two wives, had thirty-five 



