. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. aredin 1786, and a fifth in 1825. Dendrologia, an abridg-ment by J. Mitchell, was issued in 1827. A verylong article might be written on this most interesting as I may justify (without immodesty) from the manyletters of acknowledgement received from gentlemenof the first quality, and others altogether strangers tome. Evelyn was much disappointed at not receivingthe appointment of Inspector of the Royal Forests,but the mighty man, then in despotic power con-ferred it upon another who had seldom been o
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. aredin 1786, and a fifth in 1825. Dendrologia, an abridg-ment by J. Mitchell, was issued in 1827. A verylong article might be written on this most interesting as I may justify (without immodesty) from the manyletters of acknowledgement received from gentlemenof the first quality, and others altogether strangers tome. Evelyn was much disappointed at not receivingthe appointment of Inspector of the Royal Forests,but the mighty man, then in despotic power con-ferred it upon another who had seldom been out ofthe smoke of London, where, though there was a greatdeal of timber, there were not many trees. Evelyns next book, Kalendariiini Horlense, or the Gardeners Almanack, directing what he is to domonthly throughout the year, and what fruits andSowers are in their , was first published in1664, and in about forty years had run into teneditions. The British Museum copy, 1666, is in-teresting in having a presentation inscription to LordArlington in th> authors handwriting. This was not. JOHN EVELYN. and valuable work. Sylva was the outcome of anaddress delivered at the Royal Society in October,1662, upon occasion of certain quseries propoundedto that illustrious Assembly by the Hononrable thePrincipal Officers and Commissioners of the vitality of the work, seeing that it was thestandard work on trees for over a century and half,does not need much demonstration. Dr. Huntertells us that soon after the publication of Sylva,which made its appearance under the auspices of theRoyal Society, the spirit for planting increased toa high degree; and there is reason to believe thatmany of oar ships which, in the last war, gave lawsto the whole world, were constructed from Oaksplanted at that time. In a letter to Lady Sunderland, dated Deptford,August 4, 1690, Evelyn tells us that Sylva was asuccess infinitely beyond my expectations, andthat it has been the occasion of propagat
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