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fruit houses good crops of late Grapes were still 
hanging on the Vines, splendid fruits of 
Tomatos. In the early Peach-houses the trees are 
just оп the move, and the early Vines look very 
promising. 
Great improvements have been made by Мг, P. 
Blair in the pleasure- ground. Many ornamental 
trees and shru anted—indeed, 
the place has undergone a great transformation, and 
is still being ——— во that it will soon match 
any ape in the c untry 
The kitc i Sedes is well stocked with vege- 
made upon its 
resources, any fine new buildings have been 
erected, including one in the village se 
a lecture hal’, with roo for billiards, the 
library in connection wi which ver 
go e, the whole forming a great boon t 
the inhabitants of the place, The Duchess 
head gardener, Alfred Out 
JOHN EVELYN. 
(Concluded from р. 511.) 
Еувітм differed from most of the savants of his day 
The estab- 
The scientist and the antiquary were not 
. with much respect at that period, and their 
apparent eccentricities were made the butt of mach 
cheep ridicule, and that ridicule, when N in 
the * catchy " lines of Samuel —— had the dis- 
d by the general 
for a long pe 
кы of «авія regal John Evelyn's appearance 
a8 no we have indicated, the out- 
tfectly nicae d vanity, but a laudable 
desire that others might profit by his experience, 
Пів garden was his great hobby, and he found it so 
full of pleasure and instruction that he wished others 
to participate. Botany, like chemistry, was gradually 
emerging from being a mere art of empiricism, and 
Evelyn did more than perhaps all his contemporaries 
together to compel the recognition and acknowledg- 
ment of these two sciences 
Evelyn’s firat publication was issued іп 1649, when 
he was twenty-nine years of age, It was not until 
nine years aíter this that the firat of his long and 
valuable series of horticultural publications made its 
into six editions in nearly as many years. It was 
signed " R. D. кк M B. n < whatever these 
n шау or may not mean; the real name and 
dignity of the pares —— N. de pulos fons de 
chambre du Roi, It * transplanted into English 
by Philocepos," pee "Published by John Crooke at 
the sign of the Ship in St. Paul's ар іп 
is book, which Жери 
regarded, and rightly so, а treatise th 
extant on gardening, is an exceedingly aer 
work to the literary antiquary. 
of 
Pears (315 in number), Peaches ud J faney Pinme, 
Cherries, and other fruits are e 
The book is a duodecimo of 319 pages, Bug cms 
plates by A. Hertocks; it was an unquestionable 
success. A mage edition appeared in 1669 (with 
attached to it for the firat time), to 
which was ET “The English Vineyard Vindi- 
eated," b n Rose, The third edition appeared 
in 1672, * pm in 1675, 1678; and 1691, 
aring the interval which elapsed between the 
first and the second editions of the French Gardiner, 
Evelyn wrote and published his most celebrated 
work, Sylva, or a discourse of Forest Trees and the 
Propagation of Timber," to which is annexed 
omona, an a ix concerning fruit - trees in 
relation to cider, 1664.“ This was reprinted in 
1669, and in 1679, with considerable additions; 
again in 1705 with atill further additions and im- 
provements; and finally in 1725, with other works 
Dendrologia, an gbridg- 
. Mitchell, was re in 1827, A ver 
— article might ba written on this most interesting 
CHRONICLE. 
[Овсемввв 28, 1895, 
as І may jastify (without immodesty) from the many 
letters of acknowledgement received from gentlemen 
= the 2 quality, and others altogether strangers to 
n was much disappointed at not receiving 
thé банны of Inspector of the Royal Forests, 
but the “ mighty man, then in despotic power con- 
ferred it upon another “ who had seldom been out of 
the smoke of London, where, though there was а great 
deal of timber, there were not many trees, 
Evelyn’s next book, Kalendarium Hortense, or the 
Almanack, directing what he is 6 
was first published in 
in about ы ars had run into ten 
Tae к ish Museum copy, 1666, ia in- 
teresting inh g а presentation inscription to Lord 
Arlington in ths mirer s handwriting. . This was not 
JOHN EVELYN, 
and valuable work, Sylva was the outcome of — 
address delivered at the Ro 
iety in 
1662, “ upon occasion of certain queries — 
to that illustrious Assembly by the Honourable the 
Principal —— and Commissioners of the Navy." 
which made its appearance under the auspices of the 
Royal Society, the spirit for planting increased to 
h degree; and there is reason to believe that 
many of our ships which, in the last war, gave laws 
to the whole неч , Were со onstructed from Oaks 
planted at that tim 
In a 1 to Tai underland, dated Deptford, 
August ^ 1690, Evelyn ‘alle o va was a 
success “ 
that it has been z the occasion of 3 many 
millions of 
the firat kalendar of gardening орет published, 
i the earliest which embodied the 
long practical experience of an able writer and close 
observer. There can be no doubt about the 12 that 
this work had an extraordinary influence on English 
gardening, which indeed it may be said to have revo- 
lutionised. The € of the book would appear to 
vate—a mere note-book of 
ві with no 
thought of publication. 
informed Lady Sunderland that it was written 
“ almost forty yeares since,” so that it more properly 
belongs to his earlier works, although doubtless it 
contains the result of his later experiences. At all 
events, it was an epoch-making book, and a с classic 
in its way. 
Nearly thirty years after the Kalendarium first 
appeared, John Evelyn assisted i in contributing ast 
ano ther 
This time the work, The Compleat Gard'ner, was % 
