[27] _Life of Sir Humphry Davy_, London, 1839, p. 46.
[28] See letter of Thomas Poole, p. 322, _Fragmentary Remains of Sir
Humphry Davy_.
[29] _Salmonia_, p. 5, London, Murray, 1851.
[30] _Fragmentary Remains_, p. 242.
[31] _Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine._
[32] _Agricultural Biography_, etc. London, 1854. _Printed for the
Author._
[33] I ought, perhaps, to make definite exception in the case of a
writer so universally accredited. In his "Encyclopædia of Gardening," he
speaks of the "Geoponica" as the work of "modern Greeks," written after
the transfer of the seat of empire to Constantinople; whereas the bulk
of those treatises were written long before that date. He speaks of
Varro as first in order of time of Roman authors on agriculture; yet
Varro was born 116 B. C., and Cato died as early as 149 B. C. Crescenzi
he names as an author of the fifteenth century; he should be credited to
the fourteenth. He also commits the very common error in writers on
gardening, of confounding the Tuscan villa of Pliny with that at
Tusculum. These two places of the Roman Consul were entirely distinct
and unlike.
[34] _Lord Byron and his Contemporaries_, Vol. II. p. 258.