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Tusser, Markham, the Maison Rustic, Hartlib, Walter Blith, 

 the Philosophical Transactions, and other books, which you 

 know better than my selfe. 



EHOLD the Disposition and Order of these finer sorts of ANTHONY 



Apartments, Gardens, Villas \ The kind of Harmony to COOPER 

 the Eye, from the various Shapes and Colours agreeably mixt, EARL OF 

 and rang'd in Lines, intercrossing without confusion, and SHAFTESBURY 

 fortunately co-incident. A Parterre, Cypresses, Groves, Wilder- 

 nesses. Statues, here and there, of Virtue, Fortitude, Temper- 

 ance Iferoes-'Busts, Philosophers-ULe&diS ; with sutable Mottos 

 and Inscriptions Solemn Representations of things deeply 

 natural Caves, Grottos, Rocks Urns and Obelisks in retir'd 

 places, and dispos'd at proper distances and points of Sight : 

 with all those Symmetrys which silently express a reigning Order, 

 Peace, Harmony, and Beauty \ But what is there answerable to 

 this, in the MINDS of the Possessor st What Possession or Pro- 

 priety is theirs ? What Constancy or Security of Enjoyment ? What 

 Peace, what Harmony WITHIN ? "Miscellaneous Reflections. 



The greatest fruit and kitchen gardener who ever lived was born at Poictiers JEAN DE LA 

 1626; he gave up study of taw to accompany son of M. Tambonneau (whose QUINTINYE 

 garden he planned and directed] to Italy, to study plants ; made experiments and (1626-1700). 

 discoveries on sap of plants. His " Traitt des Jardins Fruitier s et Potagers" 

 (Amsterd. 1690), translated by Evelyn as " Compleat Gardiner" and abridged 

 by London and Wise. Friend of Louis XIV. and Condt. Charles II. offered 

 him pension. He visited England twice. Perrault says his letters were published 

 in London. He stayed with Evelyn, who had his portrait engraved for him, 

 and Quintinye imparted to him his mode of cultivating melons. He was Director- 

 General of the Kings Fruit and Kitchen Garden at Versailles, which he laid out, 

 covering thirty acres, of which he gives the plan. Here the Confreres de Saint 

 Fiacre, the Tutelar Saint of Horticulturists, still hold their Gardeners' Lodge. 

 He died 170x3, and Louis XIV. said to his widow, ' I am as great a sufferer by 

 his death as yott, and I despair of ever supplying his loss. ' His system of pruning 

 and training wall and espalier trees surpassed that of all previous writers. 



T KNOW well enough that all Books of Gardening have usually 

 * begun with a Preface full of the praises given to it, and that 

 consequently it may be thought this ought to begin so too. 



