The Compleat fruit and flower gardener. 1733. See Cowell, John. 
The curious and profitable gardener. 
The Compleat planter & cyderist; or, Choice collections and observa¬ 
tions for the propagating all manner of fruit-trees, and the 
most approved ways and methods yet known for the making and 
ordering of cyder, and other English wines. By a lover of 
planting. London, Printed for Tho. Basset, 1685. E56 p. 
(Arn. Arb.) 
H. Sotheran, Cat. 820 (1930), pt.3, no.2457, en¬ 
ters under title, with note stating that the author 
is unknown, but that the work is often incorrectly 
attributed to William Ellis, who published a book 
with similar title in 1757. Lady Cecil, Hist. Eng. 
Gard., 2d ed., p.350, enters under Ellis, but says 
the author’s name does not appear in the book. As 
the preface is dated t5ay 24, 1683, it is obviously 
impossible that this could be writtfen by William 
Ellis who flourished 1732-1758. The latter’s book 
on this subject has not thus far been identified, 
but lIFlf; thinks Sotheran’s statement may refer to 
a work entitled ’’The compleat cyderman," of v;hich 
the Dept. Agr. possesses a copy published London, 
1754, q.v. (LIFW) 
- The Compleat planter and cyderist. Together with the art of 
pruning fruit-trees. In two books. I. Containing plain di¬ 
rections for the propagating all manner of fruit-trees ... 
II. The art of pruning, or lopping fruit-trees. With an ex¬ 
planation of some words which gardeners make use of, in speak¬ 
ing of trees. With the use of the fruits of the trees ... 
London, Printed for Thomas Bassett, 1690. 256, 104 p. 
(Arn. Arb.) 
The first part is apparently reprinted verbatim 
from the 1685 ed.; the 2d part, without individual 
t.-p., is translated from Nicolas Venette’s ’’L'art 
de tailler les arbres fruitiers” (Paris, 1683), and 
is also found as a separate work with full title, 
for vrhich see Venette, Nicolas. 
A Compleat system of husbandry and gardening. 1668 et seq. See 
Vi’orlidge, John. Systems agriculturae. 
Complete. For titles beginning with this word see ’’Compleat.” 
