Volume 2

Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1930
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more of the inhabitants by their Smoke and Stench than they fupply with their Water. Our Author alfo complains that the Gardens about London would no longer bear Fruit, and gives instances of Or¬ chards in Barbican and the Strand that were ob- ferved to have a good crop the year in which New- cajlle was befiegeda, becaufe but a fmall quantity of Coals were brought to London that year; by this we may obferve how much the evil is in- creafed fince the time this Treatife was written, ft would now puzzle the moft fkilful Gardener to keep Fruit-trees alive in thefeplaces: The complaint at this time would be, not that the trees were without Fruit, but that they would not bear even Leaves. Although the propofal of turning all the noxious Trades at once out of town may be thought im¬ practicable, as being inconfiftent with the general Liberty of the Subject; yet certainly fame very beneficial Regulations lie within the power of the prefent public-fpirited and active Magiftrates, to whom, with deference, the Editor fubmits the fol¬ lowing Hints. Till more* effectual methods can take place, it would be of great fervice, to oblige all thofe Trades who make ufe of large Fires, to carry their Chim- a 1644. nies