WILLIAM SPEECHLY. He wrote Hints on Domestic Rural Economy; 8vo. On the Culture of the Vine and Pine Apple, with Hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England. On the Culture of the Pine Apple, and the Management of the Hot-House; 8vo. He made a tour in Holland, chiefly to observe the Dutch mode of cultivating the Pine, and the Grape. Mr. Loudon, in his Encyclop. calls him "the Moses of modern British vine dressers;" and in the Gardener's Magazine for January, 1828, has given an interesting and honourable character of him. He died at Great Milton, in 1819, aged eighty-six.[60] Marshall, in his Planting and Rural Ornament, has given us Mr. Speechley's sensible letter on the Duke of Portland's Plantations. Mr. Johnson says "he perhaps surpassed every practical gardener of his age." PHILIP LE BROCQ, chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester, wrote, 1, A Description of Certain Methods of Planting, Training, and Managing all Kinds of Fruit Trees, Vines, &c. London, 8vo. 1786. 2, Sketch of a Plan for making the New Forest, a Real Forest. _Stockdale_, 8vo. 1793. WALTER NICHOL, whom Mr. Loudon, in his Encyclopædia, calls an author of merit, and informs us that Mr. Nichol, "in the year 1810, undertook an extensive journey through England, for the purpose of visiting the principal seats and plantations, with a view, on his return, to compose the _Planter's Calendar_. This work had scarcely commenced, when he was seized with an illness which carried him off suddenly, in March, 1811." His works appear to be the following:-- The Gardener's Kalendar; or, Monthly Directory of every Branch of Horticulture; 8vo. The Planter's Kalendar; or, the Nurseryman's and Forester's Guide; 8vo. The Villa Garden Directory; or, Monthly Index of Work to be done in Gardens, Shrubberies, &c.; 12mo. Scotch Forcing Gardener; 8vo. The Practical Planter. Mr. Johnson says "his works are of the first authority, and rank as the equals of those of Abercrombie, being the result of long practice during an enlightened era of our art." JAMES MADDOCK, of the Society of Friends, and commercial florist, at Walworth, where, about the middle of last century, he established the florist garden there, now belonging to Milliken and Curtis. He died about 1806. He published the Florist's Directory, and Complete Treatise on the Culture of Flowers; 8vo. 1792. New editions in 1810 and 1822. THOMAS S. D. BUCKNALL, Esq. published the Orchardist; extracted from the Society's Trans. for the Encouragement of Arts, &c.; _with additions_. 8vo. 1797. I had omitted the following, for which I am indebted to Mr. Johnson's History of English Gardening:-- RICHARD RICHARDSON. De cultu Hortorum, Carmen. 4to. London, 1669. Of either of the above enumerated Authors on Gardening, I have not been able to discover any Portrait. [Illustration] Of the following we _have_ Portraits:--