344 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
1661 . John Forster. England’s Happiness Increased, or a sure and easie 
remedy against all succeeding Dear Years. By a plantation of 
the roots called Potatoes. London, 1664. 4to. 
Le Gendre-Forster. The Manner of ordering Fruit Trees . . by the 
Sieur Le Gendre. London, 1664. * 
“ Sieur Le Gendre ” is a pseudonym for Robert Arnault d’Andilly. The translator was 
John Forster. 
Stephen Blake. The Complete Gardener’s Practice. London, 1664. 
4to. 
Jonathan Goddard, m.d. Observations concerning the texture and 
similar parts of a Tree. 
-The Fruit Tree’s Secrets. 
These treatises were papers read to the Royal Society, and were only printed in Evelyn’s 
Sylva'in 1664. 
1665 . William Hughes. The Complete Vineyard, &c. London, 1665. 4to. 
-The Flower Garden, enlarged . . . also how to draw a horizontal 
dial as a knot in a garden. London, 1671 and 1672. i2mo. 
- The American Physician ; or a Treatise of the Roots, Plants, 
Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, Herbs, etc. growing in the English Planta¬ 
tions . . London, 1672. i2mo. 
John Rea. Flora, seu de Florum cultura ; or a complete Florilege. 
London, 1665. Folio. 
-Flora, Ceres, et Pomona. 1676. Folio. 
An enlarged edition of the preceding. J ohn Rea, gentleman, who was resident at Kinlet, 
near Bewdley, in Worcestershire, in 1676, is sometimes mistaken for John Ray the learned 
Divine and Naturalist, but the latter was nearly thirty years younger. 
Philosophical Transactions, published by the Royal Society, were begun 
in 1665. 
The following are among the contributors to the early volumes (before 1700) of papers on 
Botanical or Horticultural Subjects—John Beaumont, James Cunningham, John Evelyn, 
Nehemiah Grew, Hon. Charles Howard, Anthony van Lunwenhock, Martin Lister, Christopher 
Merret, J ames Petiver, Robert Plott, J ohn Ray, Richard Richardson, Sir Hans Sloane, J ohn 
Temple, Ezekiel Yonge. 
1666 . John Rose. The English Vineyard Vindicated . . London, 1666. 
12mo. * 
With a preface by Philocepos, i.e., John Evelyn. It was reissued in 1669,1675, and 1691 as 
an appendix to Evelyn’s French Gardiner, and alone in 1672. 
1667 . Abraham Cowley. The Garden (a Poem). 
Printed at the end of Poems by Jeremiah Wells, which were published in 1667, in 8vo. 
1669 . Richard Richardson. De cultu Hortorum, Carmen. London, 1669. 
4to. * 
This title is taken from Johnson’s list.f Watt gives the date as 1699. 
Francis Dudley (fourth Lord North). Observations and Advices 
ceconomical. 1669. 8vo. 
S. B. [Samuel Blagrave, or as some say, Billingsly.] “ The Epitome 
of Husbandry (a complete plagiary, the first 181 pages being 
copied from Fitz-Herbert, and the rest from Mascall, &c.).” 
1669. * 
This intitulation and note are taken from J ohnson. 
J. W., Gent. [John Worlidge]. Systema Agriculturse, The Mystery of 
Husbandry discovered . . To which is added Kalendarium Rusti- 
cum . . London, 1669. Folio. 
Second edition in 1675, others in 1681 and 1677, the fourth, “with large Additions,” in 
1687. 
t See under 1839. 
