A HISTORY OF

44.1896

ENGLISH GARDENING,

CHRONOLOGICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, LITERARY,
AND CRITICAL.

TRACING THE PROGRESS OF THE ART IN THIS COUNTRY
FROM THE INVASION OF THE ROMANS TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

BY

GEORGE W. JOHNSON.

"Increscunt quotannis Scientiæ, emendantur quotidie, et ad fastigium
suum optatum sensim sensimque, plurium virorum opera et studio junctis,
feliciter properant.”

THUNBERG.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY BALDWIN & CRADOCK, AND LONGMAN &
Co. PATERNOSTER ROW; H. & W. WRIGHT, 51, HAY-
MARKET; J. RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY; AND
H. WICKS, 41, NEW BRIDGE STREET,
BLACKFRIARS.

1829.

ΤΟ

THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT, Esq.

PRESIDENT OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,

&c. &c.

AS A

DEMONSTRATION OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM

FOR HIS TALENTS AND KINDNESS,

THIS WORK

IS DEDICATED,

BY,

THE AUTHOR,