pperplates, done by the first
hands, _from the Author's Drawings_. By Stephen Switzer, Gardener:
several years Servant to Mr. London, and Mr. Wise. 3 vols. 8vo.
1718.

3. A Compendious Method for Raising Italian Brocoli, Cardoon,
Celeriac, and other Foreign Kitchen Vegetables; as also an Account
of Lucerne, St. Foyne, Clover, and other Grass Seeds, with the
Method of Burning of Clay; 8vo. 1729. Fifth edition, 8vo. 1731, 1s.
6d.[43]

4. An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and
Hydraulicks, wherein the most advantageous Methods of Watering
Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, Buildings, Gardens, &c. are laid
down. With Sixty Copper Cuts of Rural and Grotesque Designs for
Reservoirs, Cataracts, Cascades, Fountains, &c.; 2 vols. 4to.
1729.[44]

5. A Dissertation on the True Cythesus of the Ancients; 8vo. 1731;
1s. 6d. A classic production. At the end, he gives a Catalogue of
the Seeds, &c. sold by him at the Flower-pot, _over against the
Court of Common Pleas, in Westminster; or at his garden on
Millbank_.[45]

6. Country Gentleman's Companion, or Ancient Husbandry Restored,
and Modern Husbandry Improved; 8vo. 1732, 1s. 6d.

7. Switzer was the chief conductor of Monthly Papers on
Agriculture, in 2 vols. 8vo., and he himself designed the Two
Frontispieces. To be sold at his Seed Shop _in Westminster Hall_.

8. The Practical Fruit Gardener; 8vo. Cuts, 1717. Other editions,
8vo. 1724, 1731, Revised and recommended by the Rev. Mr. Lawrence
and Mr. Bradley, with their Two Letters of Recommendation.

In this later edition of 1731, are a few additions. In one of its
concluding chapters, he mentions "my worthy and ingenious friend, Sir
James Thornhill." This pleasing volume, after stating the excellency of
fruits, observes, "if fruit trees had no other advantage attending them
than to _look_ upon them, how pleasurable would _that_ be? Since there
is no flowering shrub excels, if equals that of a _peach_, or _apple
tree_ in bloom. The tender enamelled blossoms, verdant foliage, with
such a glorious embroidery of festoons and fruitages, wafting their
odours on every blast of wind, and at last bowing down their laden
branches, ready to yield their pregnant offspring into the hands of
their laborious planter and owner."[46]

JOHN TAVERNER published, in 1660, a little Treatise, c