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debt, where he wrote a great part of his medical treatises. 

 Bishop Tanner says he was a man of acute judgment, and 

 true piety. He was universally esteemed as a polished scho- 

 lar, and as a man of probity, benevolence, and piety. I 

 gather the following from Dr. Pulteney: "Of Dr. Bulleyn 

 there is a profile with a long beard, before his " Government 

 of Health," and a whole length of him, in wood, prefixed to 

 the "Bulwarke of Defence;" which book is a collection of 

 most of his works. He was an ancestor of the late Dr. 

 Stukely, who, in 1722, was at the expence of having a small 

 head of him engraved. He proves that we had excellent 

 apples, pears, plums, cherries and hops, of our own growth, 

 (before the importation of these articles into England), by 

 London and Kentish gardeners. His zeal for the promotion 

 of the useful arts of gardening, the general culture of the 

 land, and the commercial interests of the kingdom, deserved 

 the highest praise; and for the information he has left of 

 these affairs, in his own time, posterity owe him acknowledg- 

 ments." In a note to his Life, in the Biog. Diet., 7 vols. 

 folio, 1748, is a curious account of many fruits, &c. then in 

 our gardens. The same note is in Kippis. Richardson's 

 portraits to Granger gives us the above profile. Mr. John- 

 son, at page 51 of his History of English Gardening, point- 

 edly says, " Dr. Bulleyn deserves the veneration of every 

 lover of gardening, for his strenuous advocating its cause, at 

 a time when it had become a fashion to depreciate the pro- 

 ducts of our English gardens.' 5 And at page 57, pays him a 

 further just tribute. 



THOMAS HYLL, who, in 1574, published, in 4to., "The 

 Profitable Arte of Gardeninge." Another edition in 1593, 

 4to. His interesting chapter on Bees is annexed to these 

 editions.^* There appears another edition in small 12mo. 



* About eighty years previous to Hyll's Treatise on Bees, Rucellai, an 

 Italian of distinction, who aspired to a cardinal's hat, and who laboured with 



