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Fairchild, Thomas (1667?-1729)

For an account of this author and his book
see Brotherston's "The city gardener" in Gard.
Chron. (3) 51:65-66 (Feb.3,1912). Dates given
above from Sargent, Silva of North America, 5:
68 (1893). Fairchild established a foundation
providing for special sermons to be preached
in London on Whitsun Tuesday of each year.
See also Fairchild lectures.

The city gardener. Containing the most experienced
method of cultivating and ordering such ever-greens,
fruit-trees, flowering shrubs, flowers, exotick plants,
&c. as will be ornamental, and thrive best in the London
gardens. London, Printed for T. Woodward [etc.] 1722.
70 p. (Brit. Mus.; Harvard; N. Y. Pub. Lib.; Arn. Arb.)

The London gardener, containing the most experienced 
method of cultivating and ordering such ever-greens,
fruit trees, flowering shrubs, exotic plants, flowers, etc.,
as will be ornamental and thrive best in the London gardens.
2d ed. London, 1760. 61 p. (Dulau Cat.143:38 (no.919);
Cecil, 2d ed., p.361; Johnson, p.216)

Falck, Jeremias.

Novae ... florum icones ... delineatae et tabulis
aeneis incisis. Amsterdam [1662?] 12 pl. incl. t.-p.
without letterpress. F°. (Brit. Mus.)

----- See also Vallet, Pierre.  Lejardin da roy Louis XIV.
Amstelodami, 1662.

Falcone, Giuseppe.

La nuova, vaga et dilettevole villa: opera d'agricoltura, 
piu che necessaria per chi desidera d'accrescere l'
entrate de suoi podere ... per piantare, allevare, incalmare 
arbori, coltivar giardini [etc.] Pavia, 1597.
(Brit. Mus.)
Altho Niccoli, Saggio Stor. e Bib. Agr. Ital.
(1902), p. 46, gives Brescia, 1559, as the first
ed., this must be an error for that of 1599, as
it was pub. at Brescia, while that of 1597 was
pub. Pavia. W. M. Voynich in letter of April,
1913, quoted a 1599 copy as 1st ed. It may be
that of 1597 is very little known. It is however, 
given by Filippo Re, Diz. Rag. Lib. Agr.
2:241, and there is a copy in the Brit. Mus.
As neither of these gives the title in full,
it has here been expanded from that of 1599
and other known later editions. (MFW)
        