Facing p.83 
(supplementary) 
Miscellanies on ancient and modern gardening, and on the scenery.'' 
of nature. London, Printed for the author, and sold by 
J. Walter, 1785. 126 p. (Dept. Agr.) 
This appears to be absolutely anor^ous, but 
has often been attributed to Samuel Felton, the 
author of "Gleanings on gardens" (1829) and "On 
the portraits of English authors on gardening" 
(1828, 2d ed. 1830). Johnson, Hist. Eng. Gard. 
treats the "Miscellanies" as anonymous, but un¬ 
der Felton's works (p.245-246), refers to him 
as a "literaiy sexagenarian." If this implies 
he was then in his sixties, he would have been 
rather young at the time the "Miscellanies" were 
published. Without conclusive proof of his auth¬ 
orship of this work, we hesitate to accept it. 
Moreover, Henry Cork advertised in 1931, Catii 
9, item 361, a copy of the "Elements of modem 
gardening", together with the "Miscellanies on 
ancient and modem gardening" (1785). The "Ele¬ 
ments" is doubtfully credited by the Brit. Mus. 
to J. Trusler, with the queried date 1800. But 
Johnson (p.244) treats the "Elements" as anony¬ 
mous, and definitely assigns its date as 1784. 
Finding these two anonymous works, very close 
in date and on kindred topics, bound together, ^ 
suggests that the "Elements of modem gardening" 
and "Miscellanies on ancient and modem garden¬ 
ing" might well have been written by one person, 
possibly Trusler, Felton, o? quite another. It 
seems possible that if by Felton, they may have 
been mentioned in reviews of his works published 
about 1829 or 1830. (MFW- 3/2/49) 
