a variety of the finest
flavours and exalted relishes. To cool us in the heat of summer, she
copiously unites the acid to an agreeable sweetness. Flowering shrubs
and trees are often purchased by gentlemen at a high price; yet not one
of them can compare in beauty with an _apple tree_, when beginning to
expand its blossoms."[52] Speaking of the greengage, he says, "its taste
is so exquisitely sweet and delicious, that nothing can exceed it." He
enlivens many of his sections on the cultivation of various fruits, by
frequent allusions to Theophrastus, Virgil, Pliny, and other _Rei
rustica scriptores_. His chapter on Pears, (the various kinds of which
possess "a profusion of sweets, heightened by an endless variety of
delicious flavours,") is particularly profuse. So is that on Apples.

JAMES RUTTER published, in 1767, Modern Eden, or the Gardener's
Universal Guide; 8vo.

JOHN DICKS published, in 1769, The New Gardener's Dictionary; in sixty
numbers, small folio, 30s. Blyth.

JAMES GARTON published, in 1769, The Practical Gardener; 8vo. 3s. Dilly.

---- WILDMAN published, in 1768, a Treatise on the Culture of Pear
Trees: to which is added, a Treatise on the Management of Bees; 12mo.
Dublin.

ANTHONY POWEL, ESQ. Gardener to George II. published The Royal Gardener;
12mo. 1769.

---- OCKENDEN, ESQ. published, in 1770, Letters, describing the Lake of
Killarney, and Rueness's Gardens; 8vo. Dublin.

THOMAS HITT published his Treatise on Fruit Trees, 8vo. 1775. A third
edition in 1768. Mr. Loudon calls it "an original work, valuable for its
mode of training trees." He also published, in 1760, a Treatise on
Husbandry; 8vo. 3s.

ADAM TAYLOR, Gardener to J. Sutton, Esq. at New Park, near Devizes,
published a Treatise on the Ananas, or Pine Apple: containing Plain and
Easy Directions for Raising this most excellent Fruit without Fire, and
in much higher perfection than from the Stove; to which are added, Full
Directions for Raising Melons. Devizes, 8vo. 1769.

JAMES MEADER, Gardener at Sion House, and afterwards to the Empress
Catharine. He published, in 1771, in 12mo. The Modern Gardener, &c. in a
manner never before published; selected from the Diary MSS. of the late
Mr. Hitt. Also, The Planter's Guide, or Pleasure Gardener's Companion;
with plates, 1779, oblong 4to.

RICHARD WESTON, ESQ. an amateur gardener, who has given, at the end of
his "Tracts on Practical Agriculture, and Gardening," 1762, 8v