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When the firfl edition was pubUfiied, gardening was then much lefs known than at prefent ; and 

 therefore, as the knowledge of the art increafed, it became more neceflary to en.large on the 



fubje6l, by adding the new^ improvements to the former, without which it would have been deem- 

 ed imperfect : for as the author's fituation in life rendered him capable of being well informed of the 

 progrefs made in the art, by his great correfpondence both at home and abroad, he thought it 

 would not be unpleafing to communicate thofe improvements to the public : in doing which, he has 

 been careful not to publifli any thing imparted to him, until he was fully fatisfied of the fatSls by 



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Others have fuggefled, that printing the improvements feparately would give an 

 in this point J but the author had made trial of former purchafers fome years paft 

 feveral fheets of new articles, by way of Supplement, for which there was fcarce any d^ 

 the few which were fold, would not defray the expence of paper and printing. 



As the number of plants now cultivated In England, are more than double thofe which were here 

 when the firft edition of this book was publiflied, the mentioning of them, together with their 



a work of this nature, therefore the author hopes his care in 



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the branches of agriculture are Included in it, in a more complete manner than can be found in 

 any other book extant, though written wholly on the fame fubject. Nor are the in(tru£tions 



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It is amazing to fee, in moft of the books which have been publifhed concerning hufbandry, that 

 fcarce any of the compilers have taken the leaft notice of the' common practice of fowing eight times 

 the quantity of Corn upon land that is neceflary, to the great' expence and detriment of the farmers, 

 who are fo wedded to their old cuftoms, as not to be convinced of the error : for fo obftinate are 

 they in this matter, that unlefs the whole ground be covered with the blades of Corn by the fpring, 



they judge it not worth fl:anding, and in confequence thereof frequently plough up their Wheat 

 and V. inter Corn, to fow the land with Barley, or other Lent Corn; whereas, if the former 

 had been left (landing, it would have produced a better crop than any land can do where the blades 

 are very thick, as the author has frequently obferved. I have mentioned this to feveral faiv 

 mers, but the anfwcr has conltantly been, that on rich ground a thin crop of roots will often pro-r 

 duce a large crop of Corn, but on poor land it will not pay coft, which is a very great abfurdity ; 

 for liovv is it poflible, that bad land can fupply proper nouriflimcnt to a greater number of roots 

 than better ground ? and where this practice is obferved, feldom more than three or four bufliels aie 

 reaped from one fown; whereas, where the fame quantity is ,fown upon the fame, or a like foil, and 

 has room to grow, the produce will be at leait fix or feven bulhels. Yet I have k^n growing 

 tjpon land iiot Vexy good, and uncultivated, for more than twenty years, which and was fovrn w ith 



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