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ture from which Vertue's print was taken, was at Pallion, 

 near Durham, the seat of his grandson, John Goodchild, 

 Esq. In Rodd's catalogue of engraved portraits, printed a 

 few years ago, was " John Lawrence, prebend of Salisbury, 

 original drawing by Vertue, price 5s." Mr. Lawrence pub- 

 lished also, in folio, in 1726, his System of Agriculture and 

 Gardening. Mr. Nichols, in vol. iv. of his Literary Anec- 

 dotes, has given a list of all his works, has preserved a few 

 particulars respecting him, and pays a just tribute to him. A 

 list of his works may also be seen in Watts's Bibl. Brit., and 

 in Mr. Johnson's work. The Encycl. of Gardening informs 

 us that he was f( of a hospitable and benevolent disposition, 

 taking great pleasure in presenting a rich dessert of fruit to 

 his friends." He was presented to the rectory of Yelvertoft, 

 Northamptonshire, in 1703, "by the extraordinary uncom- 

 mon bounty of a generous patron." In 1721, he was pre- 

 sented to that of Bishop's Wearmouth, Durham, where he 

 died in 1732. He was also a prebend of Salisbury.* 



Mr. Lawrence thus enforces the pleasures of a gar- 

 den, to his own order: " to make them happy by loving an 

 innocent diversion, the amusements of a garden being not 

 only most delightful to those that love them, but most whole- 

 some to those that use them. A good man knows how to 

 recapitulate all his pleasures in a devout lifting up of his 

 hands, his eyes and his heart, to the great and bountiful 

 author of nature, who gives beauty, relish, and success to 

 all our honest labours." His pen likewise paints with "soft 

 and tempting colours," the extreme beauty of our fruit-trees, 

 when clothed with their different coloured blossoms, (what 

 Lord Byron calls the sweet and blooming fruits of earth): 



* I do not mean to apply to the hospitable table of this reverend gentle- 

 man, the lines of Peter Pindar: 



One cut from venison, to the heart can speak, 

 Stronger than ten quotations from the Greek. 



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