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We have to thank Mr. G. Claridge Druce, F.L.S., for calling 
attention to these records in the pages of the ‘ Midland Naturalist,’ 
xvi (1893), pp. 17-18. 
[Since the foregoing was delivered, 1 have been able to refer 
to another copy of the ‘Art of Simpling.’ The work does not 
contain any localities, hut is simply an introduction to botany as 
understood in Coles’s days. Its full title runs thus :— 
‘ The Art of Simpling. An Introduction to the Knowledge and 
Gathering of Plants. Wherein the Definitions, Divisions, Places, 
Descriptions, Differences, Names, Yertues, Times of flourishing, 
and gathering, Uses, Temperatures, Signatures, and Appropriations 
of Plants are methodically laid down. Whereto is added, A Dis¬ 
covery of the lesser world.’ By W. Coles. London. Printed for 
Nath: Brook at the Angellin Cornhill. 1656. 12mo. pp. (16) 123. 
The curious pagination noted in ‘ Adam in Eden ’ is found here 
in a lesser degree. The paging goes on regularly as far as page 96, 
then with signature E the drollery begins, each leaf having 
a different page on its verso from expectation, as shown in the 
following pairs of pages, recto and verso :—73, 98 ; 99, 76 ; 77, 102 ; 
103, 80; 81, 106; 107,84; 85, 110; 111,88; 89, 114; 115,92; 
93, 118; 119, 96. Sig. G is correct, pp. 121-123.] 
In his second book, the first issued under his name and not 
anonymously, his ‘ Catalogus plantarum Anglise,’ 1670, John Bay 
mentions Orchis ustulata on Boyston Heath; in other publications, 
as recorded in the ‘Flora,’ he adduced four other plants from his 
own observations. But there are also secondary records in his books, 
for a correspondent of his, Dr. Eales, living at Welwyn, records 
five other plants for the first time from Hertfordshire. I am sorry 
not to be able to tell you anything about Dr. Eales, for beyond 
the fact of his communicating plants to Bay, nothing seems known 
about him. His plants were Linaria decumbens , Mentha piperita , 
Ceplialanthera pattens , C . ensifotia , and Listera ovata. 
I have now to introduce to some of you a new name to county 
botany, that of Moses Cook, gardener to the 1st Earl of Essex, 
Lord Lieutenant of the County, at Cassiobury. The hook in 
question,—‘ The Manner of Baising, Ordering, and Improving Forest- 
Trees ; with Directions how to Plant, Make, and Keep Woods, 
Walks, Avenues, Lawns, Hedges, etc. . . . ’ London, 1676, 
revised in 1679, a second edition in 1717, and a third edition in 
1724,—shows that the writer was a very capable man, and well 
versed in his work. Thus, he recommends that newly-planted 
trees should receive a covering of stable manure over their roots, 
and he scouts the advice given by Lord Yerulam that stones should 
