A HISTORY OF

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:

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Co. PATERNOSTER ROW; H. & W. WRIGHT, 51, HAY-

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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.