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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Original Publisher: Wilson Subjects: Gardening Gardeners HorticultureEngland Gardening / General Gardening / Essays Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Reference Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Page 17. -- I have in this page alluded to the hard fate of Correggio. That my reader may know who he was, let him inspect those pages in vol. i. of Sir U. Price's Essays, where he thus concludes a critique on his genius: I believe that if a variety of persons, conversant in painting, were asked what pictures (taking every circumstance together) appeared to them most beautiful, and had left the softest and most pleasing impression, -- the majority would fix upon Correggio. Page 17. -- W. Lawson, in the dedication to his New Orchard and Garden, gives the name of an author on gardening, whose book I have not met with. He dedicates it to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Belosset, and he acknowledges, 1st. the many courtesies you have vouchsaved me. 2dly. your delightfull skill in matters of this nature. 3dly. the profit which I received from your learned discourse of Fruit-trees. 4thly. your animating and assisting of others to such endeavours. Last of all, the rare worke of your owne in this kind, all which to publish under your protection, I have adventured as you see. From this it would appear, that this learned discourse1' is transfused into the New Orchard and Garden. After all, perhaps, this learned discourse was merely in conversation. At all events, it has recorded the name of Sir Henry as warmly devoted to orcharding, or to horticulture. W. Lawson, in his pref...

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