"Next vnto this sanctity and holinesse of life, it is meet that our English hous-wife be a woman of great modesty and temperance as well inwardly as outwardly; inwardly, as in her behauiour and cariage towards her husband, wherein she shall shunne all violence of rage, passion, and humour, coueting lesse to direct then to be directed, appearing euer vnto him pleasant, amiable, and delightfull, and though occasion, mishaps, or the misgouernement of his will may induce her to contrary thoughts, yet vertuously to suppresse them, and with a mild sufferance rather to call him home from his error, then with the strength of anger to abate the least sparke of his euill, calling in her mind that euill and vncomely language is deformed though vttered euen to seruants, but most monstrous and vgly when it appeares before the presence of a husband: outwardly, as in her apparrell and diet, both which she shall proportion according to the competency of her husband's estate and calling, making her circle rather strait then large, for it is a rule if we extend to the vttermost, we take away increase, if we goe a hayre breadth beyond, we enter into consumption: but if we preserue any part, we build strong forts against the aduersaries of fortune, prouided that such preseruation be honest and conscionable: for a lauish prodigality is brutish, so miserable couetuousnesse is hellish. Let therefore the hus-wives garments be comly and strong, made aswel to preserue the health, as adorne the person, altogether without toyish garnishes, or the glosse of light colours, and as far from the vanity of new and fantastick fashions, as neere to the comly imitations of modest matrons."

I must give an extract from his "Country Contentements," as he reminds us of Shakspeare's lines on the tuneable cry of hounds; for Markham dwells on their sweetness of cry—"their deepe solemne mouthes—their roaring and loud ringing mouthes, which must beare the counter-tenor, then some hollow plaine sweete mouthes—a deep-mouthed dog—a couple or two of small singing beagles, which as small trebles, may warble amongst them: the cry will be a great deale the more sweeter—the hollow deepe mouth—the loud clanging mouthe—deepe flewed, such as for the most part your Shropshire and pure Worcestershire dogs are—the louder and pleasanter your cry will be, especially if it be in sounding tall woods, or under the echo of rocks—and not above one couple of roarers, which being heard but now and then, as at the opening or hitting of a scent, will give much sweetnesse to the solemns, and gravenesse of the cry, and the musick thereof will bee much more delightfull to the eares of every beholder."

Page 123.—The memory of Pope has perhaps never been more affectionately honoured (nor that of Lord Mendip, who so zealously preserved every part of the house and garden at Twickenham) than in the glowing and tender lines of De Lille, in his poem of Les Jardins.

The vignette in my title-page, and that at page 84, are two of those neat decorations which so profusely embellish the Encyclopædia of Gardening.

INDEX.

• A.
• Abercrombie, 153
• Addison, xxviii., xxxii., 49, 115
• —— reflections on the tombs, 117
• Age of gardeners and horticulturists, 81
• Alison, Dr. xxxviii., 71, 120, 211
• Anderson, 69, 175
• Ardenne, J. P. de, his charity, xiv.
• Arabian literature, 2
• Argyle, xxviii.
• Argenville, xiii.
• Arnauld d'Andelli, xiii.
• Arnolde's Chronicle, 5
• Astrology, 34
• Austen, Ralph, 18
• Austin, Fr., 19
• 
  B.
• Bacon, Lord, on flowers that perfume the air, xxx., xxxv., 55
• —— eulogies on him, 88
• —— on Gorhambury, 88
• Banks, Sir Jos., 4, 181, 187
• Barrington, Daines, 156, 177
• Bates, an aged horticulturist, 82
• Bauhine, 44
• Beale, Dr. John, vi., 16, 17, 20, 21, 54
• —— his attachment to his native country, 23
• Belosses, Sir H. 202
• Bees, on, by an Italian, 85
• Bernazzano, his skill in painting fruit, 56
• Bertholan, xviii.
• Bertrand, Fr., his Ruris Deliciæ, xiv.
• Blake, 19
• Blythe, Walter, 8, 88
• Bobart, 108
• Boileau, tributes to, xxiii. 56
• Bonfeil, 19
• Bornefond, x.
• Bos, the eminent painter, 56
• Bossuet, xxv.
• Boswell, 178
• Boyceau, ix.
• Bowles, Rev. Mr. his kind apostrophe to Lord Byron, 130
• Boyle, his character, by Boerhaave, 21
• Bradley, reprints the Herefordshire Orchards, 54
• —— on the planting of wild flowers, 54
• Braddick, 211
• Bridgman, 129, 132, 135
• Brocoli, 51
• Brocq, P. le, 82
• Brome, W. 22
• Browne, Sir Thomas, 94
• Browne, Launcelot, 154
• Bryant, 79
• Brydges, Sir E. 89, 93
• —— on Pope, 131
• Bucknall, 84
• Bulleyn, Dr. 84
• Burleigh, xxvii.
• Bury, Mr. Barclay's, 170
• Byron, Lord, xxxi. 40, 121
• —— on Pope, 129
• 
  C.
• Capell, xxvii.
• Censura Litt. 6, 12, 15, 16
• Chabanon, xiv.
• Chambers, Sir W. 185
• Champier, viii.
• Charlemagne, xviii.
• Charles II. 96
• Chatham, Lord, xxix., 74
• Chesterfield, xxix.
• —— on Pope, 125
• Chesnut tree at Tortworth, 57, 209
• Cicero on agriculture, xxxvi.
• —— on his country seat, 3
• Clive, 164
• Cobbet, on the health of gardens, xxxiv.
• —— on Moor Park, 112
• Collins, 59
• Collinson, xxviii.
• Compton, Bishop, xxviii., 39
• Cook, Captain, xiv., 171, 183
• Cooke, Moses, 31
• Corregio, his poverty, 17, 202
• Cottage gardens, 171
• Cotton, Charles, 102
• Country life, its pleasures, 48, 49, 63
• Coventry, Rev. F. 63, 135
• Cowell, 62
• Cowley, 46, 93, 100
• Cousin, viii.
• Cowslips, 54, 205
• Cradock, Jos. 179
• Curtis, W. 184
• 
  D.
• Dallaway, 94, 135, 173, 176
• Danby, xxviii.
• Daniel, H. 5
• Darwin, 162, 164
• Davy, Sir H. 30, 106
• Death, 47, 58
• Deepden, Mr. Hope's, 170
• De Lille, xiv., xvii., 50, 183, 213
• Descartes, his delight in his garden, xxxv.
• Devonshire, Duke of, xxviii.
• Dicks, 65
• Dickson, 186
• Dibdin, Dr. 17, 89.
• Dodsley, Robert, his attachment to Pope, 125
• —— his generous tribute to Shenstone, 148
• Downton Vale, 188
• Drake, Dr. 114, 115, 128
• Drope, 31
• Du Fresnoy, xii.
• Duncan, 81
• Duncan, Dr. A. 190
• 
  E.
• Elizabeth, the lion hearted, 103
• Ellis, of Gaddesden, on blossoms and fruit, 64
• Epicurus, xxxii.
• Essex, his execution, 103
• —— his character, xxvii.
• Etienne, an early French writer, viii.
• Evelyn, John, xxxii., 41, 59, 97
• —— Charles, 59
• —— John, 59
• 
  F.
• Falconer, 183
• Fairchild, 60
• Fleetwood, 114
• Fontaine, xviii.
• Flowers, 25, 27, 54, 90, 95, 205
• Forsyth, 186
• Foxley, 191
• France, its horticultural writers, see preface
• Francis I., xix.
• Franklin, rancorously attacked by Wedderburn, and panegyrised by Lord Chatham, 73, 74
• Fresnoy, xii.
• Fruit blossoms, 41, 53, 64, 121
• Fulmer, 79
• 
  G.
• Gainsborough, Earl of, xxix.
• Gardeners, the age of many, 81
• Gardens, their pleasures, see preface, and 24, 27, 28, 30, 39, 47, 63, 64, 89, 110, 121, 153
• —— those of antiquity, 1
• —— those of the Saxons, Danes and Normans, xxxv., xxxvi.
• —— near Spitalfields, 36
• —— of France, see preface
• —— of cottagers, 171
• Gardiner, J. 109
• Garrick, 137, 158, 172, 178, 181
• Garrle, Capt. 35
• Garton, 65
• Gerarde, xxx., 15, 87, 123
• Gerard's Bromley, its once noble mansion, 23, 107
• Gerard, Lady, an acquaintance of Pope's, 25
• Gibson, J. 33
• Gibson, Dr. 67, 210
• —— on the richness of a fruit garden, 64
• Gilbert, 107
• Gilpin, Rev. W., vii. 159, 173
• Girardin entombed Rousseau in his garden, xv.
• —— his eloquent effusion to prevent misery, 78
• —— on the calm of evening, xv.
• Goldsmith, 199
• Gooche, Barn., 12, 48
• Gouges de Cessieres, xiv.
• Graves, Dr., his tribute to Shenstone, 149
• Gray, 80, 129, 158, 159
• Greeks, 107, 194
• Grindall, xxviii.
• Grossetete, Bishop, 201
• 
  H.
• Halifax, xxviii.
• Hanbury, Rev. W., 143
• Hartlib, the friend of Milton, 19
• —— on orchards, 21
• Harward, 17
• Hawkins, Sir J. 8, 102, 103
• Haworth, Mr. on Miller, 141
• Heath, Mr. of Monmouth, 171
• Heeley, 79
• Henry IV. patronised Olivier de Serres and Mollet, xiv.
• Hereford, its orchards and villages, 23
• Hill, Sir John, 141
• Hitt, 65, 138
• Hogarth, 56
• Hollar, his portraits of the Tradescants, 92
• Homer, xxx., 1, 2, 47, 187
• Housewife, an amiable and pleasant one, 212
• Hudson, Lord, xxvii.
• Hyll, 85
• 
  I
• Iliffe, 23
• 
  J.
• James, 45
• Jones, of Nayland, 61
• Johnson, the editor of Gerarde, 18
• —— his testimony to Parkinson, 18
• Jonson, Ben, his eulogy on Lord Bacon, 86
• Johnson, Dr. 48, 70, 114, 116, 154, 178, 179
• —— on portraits, vii.
• —— on Charles II., 96
• —— on Sir T. Browne, 95, 96
• —— on Shenstone, 147
• Johnson's Eng. Gardening, xxxv., xxxvi., xxxvii., 83, 84, 85, 88, 91, 100, 102, 109, 115, 154,
• 177, 183, 201
• —— on Sir W. Temple, 113
• —— on Switzer, 209
• Justice, 63, 13
• 
  K.
• Kames, 69, 151
• Kennedy, 78
• Kent, 132
• Knowlton, 52, 61
• Knight, R. P. xxvi., 187
• —— on the celebration of high mass, 195
• —— on listening to professors, 196
• Kyle, 79
• 
  L.
• Lamoignon, xxii.
• Langford, 33
• Langley, 142
• Latapie, xvi.
• Lawrence, Ant. 33
• Lawrence, Rev. J. 120
• Lawson, 17, 202, 212
• Leibault, viii.
• Le Maitre, xiii.
• Lestiboudois, his tranquil end, 83
• Lesay de Marnesia, xviii.
• Liger, Louis, x., 42
• Ligne, Prince de, on gardens, xxxiv., 55
• —— on De Lille, xiv.
• —— on Antoinette, xxxiv.
• —— interview with Voltaire, xxxiv.
• —— on Milton, 132
• —— on Walpole, 177
• Linant, xiii.
• Linnæus, 139, 167, 171, 192
• Locke, 113
• London and Wise, 35
• Louis, xiv., xx.
• Loudon's Encycl. of Gardening, xi., xii., xviii., xix., xx., xxxvi., 4, 54, 80, 81, 95, 99, 109, 116, 121, 128, 136, 150, 152, 153, 155, 157, 170, 184, 194
• —— on Whateley, 72
• —— on Bacon, 87
• —— on Miller, 138
• —— on L. Browne, 156
• 
  M.
• Maddock, 83
• Maison rustique, viii., 89
• Malherbes, xvi.
• Malthus, D. xv., 78
• Mapes, Walter, the honest chaplain to Henry II. and an admired poet, 170
• Markham, Ger. viii., 88, 211, 213
• Marshall, 79, 117, 150, 157
• Marie Antoinette, xxxiv., 189
• Mary, Queen of Scots, vii., 102
• Martyn, Professor, 185
• —— his character of Miller, 138
• Mascall, 84
• Mason, Geo. xxix., 70, 156, 198
• —— on Kent, 134
• —— on Shenstone, 150
• Mason, Rev. W. xv., xxxii., 111, 157
• —— on Pope, 128, 130, 131
• —— on Shenstone, 150
• Masson de Blamont, xviii.
• Mathias on Boileau, xxiv.
• —— on Pope, 127
• —— on Mason, 164
• Mavor, Rev. Mr. 34
• —— his admirable edition of Tusser, 6
• Meader, 17
• Meager, Leonard, 34
• Mignon, his skill in painting flowers, 55
• Miller, Phillip, 138
• Milton, 20, 21, 49, 94, 130, 132, 197
• —— his great poem now magnificently printing in letters of gold, 133
• Mollet, Andre, ix.
• Mollet, Claude, ix.
• Morell, xiv.
• Morin, the florist, xi.
• Mountmorris, on Sir W. Temple, 111
• Morris, Rev. I. G., his powerful appeal on horticultural pursuits, 122
• Morris, onornamental scenery, 77
• Mountain, Didymus, 12
• 
  N.
• Nicol, Walter, 82
• Nichols, John, 54, 60, 110, 121, 143, 174, 178
• ——his friendship for Mr. Cradock, 180
• Nôtre, le, tributes to him, xi., xii., xx.
• Nourse, 58
• 
  O.
• Ockenden, 65
• Only, Rev. Mr., a lover of gardens, 54
• Opium, 168
• Orchards, 21, 23, 64, 202, 203
• Orrery, Lord, xxvi., 126
• 
  P.
• Parkinson, 89, 90
• ——testimony to his works, 18
• Pastoral Scenes, 30
• Paulmier de Grenlemesnil, viii.
• Percy, Bishop of Dromore, 72
• Pennant, 154
• Petrarch, xxxi.
• ——his handsome person, vi.
• ——on his garden, xxxv.
• Plants betray fondness for their native earth, 45
• Planting, on zeal for, 66, 69
• Platt, Sir Hugh, 13
• Plattes, Gabriel, 16
• Plimley, 165
• Pontchateau, his singular history, xiii.
• Pope, xxix., xxxiii., 1, 2, 76, 114, 123, 179, 213
• Pope mentions Lady Gerard, 25
• ——his noble thought on planting, 68
• Powel, 65
• Preston, its horticult. society, 123
• Price, Sir U. vii., xxvi., 56, 72, 77, 134, 155, 156, 177, 191
• ——on De Lille, xv.
• ——his high opinion of Mason, 163
• ——on the sculpture, poetry, and eloquence of the Greeks, 194
• ——on Correggio, 202
• Priestley, Dr. on Franklin and Wedderburn, 73
• Primroses, 30, 50, 54, 55
• Pulteney, Dr. 5, 52, 55, 56, 60, 85, 87, 90, 92, 138, 143, 182
• 
  Q.
• Quarterly Review, 41, 59, 97, 103, 183
• ——on Evelyn's Sylva, 99
• Quintinye, xi., xx., xxvii., 34, 68
• ——anecdote of, 67
• ——attempt to recover his MSS. 68
• 
  R.
• Raleigh, xxvii., xxxi., 36, 87
• Rabutin de Bussy, xxii. xxv.
• Rapin, tribute to, xiii.
• ——on Lamoignon, xxii., xxv.
• Ray, xxix., 71, 88, 94, 109, 139
• Raynal, 128
• Rea, John, his dedication to Lord Gerard, and verses on Lady Gerard, 23
• Read, 33
• Rench, an aged gardener, 82
• Repton, 186, 188
• Reynolds, Sir J. 127, 158
• Richardson, 84
• Rickets, 61
• Riviere, la Countess de, xiii., xiv., xxv.
• Robin, Jean, xix.
• Robinson, Dr. on Mary Queen of Scots, 104
• Roscommon, 48
• Rose, 101
• Rosier, xviii.
• Rousseau, his burial at Ermenonville, xv.
• Russell, Lord W. his love of gardens, xxvii.
• Rutter, 65.
• 
  S.
• Salmonia, extracts, from, 30, 107
• Scarborough, xxix.
• Schabol, xvi.
• Scott, Sir W. v., 40, 41, 172
• —— on the deaths of Marat, and Robespierre, xvi.
• —— on the garden of Vanessa, xxx.
• Scotland, its zeal for planting, 69
• Serres, Olivier de, viii.
• Sevigné, Mad. de, xii., xiv., xx., xxv.
• Seward, Miss, vi., 162, 172
• Sismondi, xix., 3, 107
• —— on bees, 86
• Shakspeare, xi., xxxi, 4, 73, 74, 78, 158, 178, 179, 197, 198, 199, 213
• Sharrock, 23
• Shenstone, 147
• Shepherd, Sir Samuel, 41
• Sherard, xxviii.
• Spectacle de la Nature, 95
• Speechley, 81
• Smollet on Chatham, xxix.
• Spring, its beauties, 21, 29, 30, 31, 209
• St. Bartholomew's massacre, viii.
• Stafford, 62, 210
• Sterne, xxvi., 170
• Stillingfleet, Benj. 8, 191
• Stevenson, D. 45
• Stevenson, H. 45
• Stevenson, M. 45
• Sully, ix., 66
• Sun, the, its celestial beams, 48
• Swinden, 78
• Switzer, xxvii., xxxiii., 45, 94, 100, 109, 110, 138, 209
• —— his grateful remembrance of his old master, 36, 39, 102
• —— his enlarged views of gardening, 49
• —— on Rose, 102
• —— on Milton, 133
• 
  T.
• Taverner, 53
• Taylor, 65
• Temperance, 169, 170
• Temple, Sir W. xxxii., 110
• —— on the garden of Epicurus, xxxii.
• Thury, M. le Vic. de, his tribute to Milton, 132
• —— on gardens, xxxv. xxxvi.
• Tradescants, 92
• Trowel, 63
• Trees, ancient ones, 33, 46, 49, 50, 57, 142, 151
• Tusser, 6, 13, 34
• 
  V.
• Vaniere, tribute to, xiii.
• Van-Huysum, his skill in painting fruit, 56, 156
• Villages, rural, 23, 199
• Vineyard at Bethnal-green, 14
• Violets, xxxi., 30, 50, 55, 205
• Vispré, 157
• Voltaire, xi., xiii., xx., xxxiv., 80
• —— his garden interview with the Prince de Ligne, xxxvi.
• 
  W.
• Wakefield horticultural soc., 122
• Walpole, Horace, xxix., 1, 80, 91, 163, 176
• —— on Sir W. Temple, 112
• —— on Kent, 132
• —— on Bridgman, 136
• Walpole, Horace, on Browne, 154
• —— on Gilpin, 173
• Walton, Isaac, xi., 30, 93, 94, 102, 104
• Warton, Thomas, 6, 8, 10, 72, 143, 161
• Watelet, xvii.
• Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, his zeal for planting, 70
• Watson, Sir W. 93, 142
• Weymouth, Lord, xxviii.
• Weston, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 57, 92
• —— his zeal for planting, 66
• Whately, xvi., xviii., 50, 72
• —— brief testimonies to his genius, vii., 72, 74, 75, 195
• —— on spring, 31
• —— his tribute to Shenstone, 150
• Wildman, 65
• Whitmill, 62
• William III. his delight in gardening, xxvii.
• Worlidge, his attachment to gardens, 28
• —— on those of France, xxvii.
• —— mentions a garden at Hoxton, 61
• Wotton, Sir H. 93
• Wynn, Sir W. W. his zeal for planting, 69
• 
  X, Y.
• Xenophon, 198
• Young, Dr. on Pope's death, 131