Bound with:
The Gentleman"s Recreation, The Second Part 1717 (Second edition) and bound with The Fruit-Garden Calendar (1718, first edition). With an Appendix On the Usefulness of the Barometer (complete?). Three volumes in one.
The Clergy-Man"s Recreation was first published in 1714, and became immediately immensely popular and was up to the fifth edition in 1717, and also resulted in the publication of the second part in 1716, and then The Fruit-Garden Kalendar in 1718. John Laurence was the Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire in England and his was the first reatl eighteenth century treatise on gardening in England. The very practical nature of his works made them very popular, includingto the colonists in America.
His experiments created much interest amongst the gardeners of the day. In his book he was one of the earliest persons to record the transmission of a virus by grafting. He was encouraged by the reception of his work to write the second volume, in which he was able to give additional improvements relating to fruit trees. For instance, he recommends a nursery man, Nicholas Parker of Chiswick Parish near London, where he himself had bought a large number of fruit trees.
His Fruit Garden Kalendar was dedicated to the Duke of Kent, Henry Gray who was "a great lover and encourager of vegetable nature" (Henrey), and appeared in 1718 and compleated his other treatises on gardening for pleasure and profit [Lawrence: Henrey 937. Rothamsted, p. 74. Evelyn: Henrey 699. Rothamsted, p. 75]. $500.00

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