
          Justice, James (cont.)

The idea that the original "Scot's gardiner's director"
(1754) was on the expanded plan of "The British gardener's
director" of later dates is suggested by the extensive use
in those later issues of Dutch florists' catalogs of 1754.
The "Catalogues van schoone bloemzaaden te vinden by Dirk
en Pierre Voerhelm te Haerlem, 1754." quoted at length in
the "Director" of Edinburgh, 1764, p.337-346, and Dublin,
1765, p.308-316, followed by explanations about many flowers 
listed, together with many other allusions to catalogs
of "Mynheers Voerhelm and Van Zorapell", sometimes without
date but often of the particular year 1754, suggest that
the author must have prepared his material specially for
timely use in that year.
The text of the 1764 and 1765 editions is in the main
identical, but it is a mere coincidence that they happen
to have the same number of pages, as the subject matter
of the 1765 edition is entirely repaged, and considerable
material added. "A treatise on vegetation" (p.i-xii), to
some extent rewritten, but mainly identical with the "Introduction" 
(p.1-17) of "The British gardener's calendar" of
1759; &quot;An alphabetical list of flower seeds &c.&quot; (p.xiii-
xxi); and the "Dissertation on forest trees." also found
in the "Calendar," are none of them found in the edition
of Edinburgh, 1764. There are also interpolations of material 
from other sources, as Miller's directions for the
growing of tulips from seed, which <s>has</s> have been inserted as 
footnotes in Justice's section on the tulip, p.282-293 of
the 1765 edition.
Another point of interest in connection with the Dublin
edition of 1765 is "that it has a preface dated at end like
the "Advertisement" of the Edinburgh edition of 1764, "Edinburgh, 
September, 1763," but unlike the latter, it does
not mention the author's death. This suggests the possibility 
that the Dublin edition was prepared independently
on the basis of one of Justice's earlier editions, and in
a sense pirated, while the Edinburgh issue seems to have
some kind of authorized relation with the earlier ones.
(M.F.W.)
        