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Title: On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening,
with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with
considerable additions

Author: Samuel Felton

Release Date: June 13, 2008 [EBook #25773]

Language: English

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ON

THE PORTRAITS

OF

English Authors on Gardening,

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THEM.

_Lately published, by the same Author, price 3s._

GLEANINGS ON GARDENS;

Chiefly respecting those of the Ancient Style in England.

PRINTED BY LOWE AND HARVEY, PLAYHOUSE YARD, BLACKFRIARS.

ON THE

PORTRAITS

OF

ENGLISH

AUTHORS ON GARDENING,

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

_Your painting is almost the natural man.--Timon of Athens._

_A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.--Winter's Tale._

_I will make a prief of it in my note-book.--M. W. of Windsor._

BY S. FELTON.

SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

[Illustration]

LONDON: 1830.

PUBLISHED BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; AND JOSEPH ONWHYN,
CATHARINE STREET, STRAND.

PREFACE.

The following pages apply only to those English writers on gardening who
are deceased. That there have been portraits taken of _some_ of those
sixty-nine English writers, whose names first occur in the following
pages, there can be no doubt; and those portraits may yet be with their
surviving relatives or descendants. I am not so presumptuous as to apply
to the following most slight memorials, some of which relate to very
obscure persons, who claimed neither "the boast of heraldry, nor the
pomp of power," but whose

----useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure

benefited society by their honest labour;--I am not so vain as to apply
to these, any part of the high testimony which Sir Walter Scott has so
justly paid to the merit of Mr. Lodge's truly splendid work of the
portraits