On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening,

chapter in the Iconologia--the Kitchen Gardener--and the Fruit Gardener.

Page 59.--The Tortworth Chesnut was growing previous to the Norman Conquest. It fixes the boundary of a manor. Even in the reign of Stephen, it was known as the great chesnut of Tortworth.

Page 62.--The author of this treatise, who is a zealous orchardist, is lavish in his praise of a then discovered appl...