Now was publish'd my "French Gardener," the first and best of the kind that introduc'd ye use of the Olitorie garden to any purpose.' Subsequent editions of it appeared in 1669, 1672, 1691, bearing Evelyn's name on the titlepage in place of the _Philocepos_ on its first publication.
With the Restoration, bringing to him greater personal freedom of thought and speech, came the most active period of Evelyn's literary production.

His loyalty at once found opportunity to answer a libel on King Charles (entitled _News from Brussels_) in _The late News from Brussels unmasked_, a long vindication of his Majesty from the calumnies and scandal therein fixed on him.

From a literary and antiquarian point of view, however, far greater interest attaches to a much shorter treatise entitled _Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated, together with some Remedies humbly proposed_.

As this is the earliest reference to the great London Smoke Nuisance, which, like the poor, we have always with us, it is of more than passing interest to know how large this difficult problem of curing it loomed about two and a half centuries ago.

Moreover, this short work affords a very typical example of Evelyn's literary style, while at the same time well exemplyfying his profusely enthusiastic outbursts of devoted and loyal attachment to the King's person and interests.
In the dull days of autumn and winter, when the heavy, damp air wafted inwards from the sea shrouds London with a dirty pall of fog thickened and discoloured with the smoke belched forth skywards from the long throats of thousands of tall factory chimneys and emitted from hundreds of thousands of household and workshop fires, the dweller in this vast overgrown city is tempted to range himself for the moment among the belauders of better times in the past.