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nected with their business, and had his trouble often 

 many times repaid with the useful wrinkles, de nyttiga 

 ron, he gained. As agriculture has so near a connection 

 with horticulture, Tragards vasendet, therefore he 

 kept at the same time an observant eye on everything 

 which occurred in rural economy, landthushallningen, 

 particularly in the cultivation of ploughed lands. Thence 

 it comes that he is still reckoned as the greatest theo- 

 reticus in England. 



After he had thus travelled through England, he 

 started on his foreign travels, and then explored Flanders 

 and Holland, because he knew that there were also great 

 horticulturists there, and that the science of the manage- 

 ment of ornamental and kitchen gardens had there 

 reached a high pitch of excellence. Whether he, besides 

 the aforenamed lands, also explored other districts, I 

 have not understood, but from the foregoing it can be 

 seen [T. I. p. 460] that no nurseryman has so much 

 advantaged himself in learning both the theorie and 

 practique of his business. After his return home he 

 devoted much time in practising all that he had known 

 before, and that he learned upon his travels. Hereupon 

 he afterwards published his Gardeners' Dictionary in Folio, 

 in which he describes in detail the cultivation of all sorts 

 of plants, those which belong to kitchen gardens, as well 

 as those which are cultivated in academical and medi- 

 cinal gardens, with numerous other useful notes. Some 

 time after that there also appeared the 2nd volume, in 

 which he completes the work by the account of the 

 cultivation of plants omitted in the first volume ; but as 

 this large work was dear enough, he shortly after made 

 an abstract of it, in which he excluded all philosophical 

 and other curieusa passages, and introduced only that 

 which particularly belongs to a nurseryman's business, 

 so that nothing on that subject is omitted. The large 



