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trees, in the gardens at Hampton Court, Carlton, and Marl- 

 borough House. Switzer thus speaks of him: " He was 

 esteemed to be the best of his profession in those days, and 

 ought to be remembered for the encouragement he gave to a 

 servant of his, that has since made the greatest figure that 

 ever yet any gardener did, I mean Mr. London. Mr. Rose 

 may be well ranked amongst the greatest virtuosos of that 

 time, (now dead) who were all well pleased to accept of his 

 company while living." 



CHARLES COTTON. He published " The Planter's Manual," 

 12mo. 1675. There is prefixed to it a rural frontispiece, by 

 Van Houe. Mr. Johnson properly calls him " one of the 

 Scriptores minor es of horticulture." His " devoted attach- 

 ment to Izaak Walton, forms the best evidence we have of 

 his naturally amiable disposition." His portrait is finely en- 

 graved in Mr. Major's extensively illustrated and most attrac- 

 tive editions of the Angler; a delightful book, exhibiting a 

 "matchless picture of rural nature." Mr. Cotton's portrait 

 is also well engraved in Zouch's Life of Walton ; and in the 

 many other curious and embellished editions of Walton and 

 Cotton's Angler. He translated with such truth and spirit, 

 the celebrated Essays of Montaigne, that he received from 

 that superior critic, the Marquis of Halifax, a most elegant 

 encomium. Sir John Hawkins calls it " one of the most 

 valuable books in the English language." A complete list of 

 Mr. Cotton's works appears in Watts's Bibl. Britt. When 

 describing, in his Wonders of the Peake, the Queen of Scot's 

 Pillar, he thus breaks out: 



Illustrious Mary, it had happy been, 



Had you then found a cave like this to skreen 



Your sacred person from those frontier spies, 



That of a sovereign princess durst make prize, 



When Neptune too officiously bore 



Your credulous innocence to this faithless shore. 



