XXviii RISE AND PROGRESS OF GARDENING. 



Many good practical and scientific gardeners lived about thii 

 time : Miller, curator of Chelsea Botanical Garden, and au- 

 thor of the well-known dictionary ; Lawrance, Bradley, and 

 Switzer ; and, towards the middle of the century, lived Hill, 

 Abercrombie, Marshall, MThail, and many others. In the 

 early part of that century, J ustice and Reid wrote on garden- 

 ing in Scotland, although the science had before their time 

 acquired a considerable degree of perfection in that country. 

 The gardens of Justice, and those of the Baron Moncrieff', at 

 Moredau, where Ryle practised as his gardener, and published 

 his treatise on peaches and vines, were, at the beginning of 

 the eighteenth century, supposed to be the highest cultivated 

 and the richest stocked in the whole country. Gardening in 

 Scotland has long been attended to, and a degree of perfection 

 attained which is not to be met with in any part of Europe, 

 taking into consideration all the circumstances of climate, and 

 other physical disabilities. The extraordinary strides that 

 horticulture has made towards perfection in the present cen- 

 tury, are truly astonishing ; and every day some fresh discovery 

 is announced, which tends to remove a prevailing evil, or which 

 facilitates the operations of the practical gardener. 



