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among his canes. Accordingly he fet out one acre of land in the middle of a large piece, which 

 he caufed to l)e planted with canes at five feet diflance, putthig but one to each hill ; thefe grew t« 

 a very large lize, and when ripe were cut, as alfo an acre from the beft part of the piece in which 



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was nearly equal in the weight of fugar j but where the plants grew fmgle, the juice was boiled 

 with a ninth part of the fuel which the other required, and he fold the fugar for fix lliillings per 

 hundred weight more than he could get for the former. This fliews what advantages may be ex'- 

 Det^ed, if the pofiefTors of lands were careful to make trials. 



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The alterations made in the catalogued of trees and plants which are added at the end of the book, 



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denote them according to their refpe6tive fpecies referred to in the body of the book, the reader is 

 defired to turn to the feveral genera, where under each article, their fpecies with their refpe^ive titles 



are inferted at length, as alfo their culture and natural places of growth. /The life of thefe ca- 

 talogues, efpecially to fuch as are not acquainted with the art of gardening, but particularly to 



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duly attended to, there would not be fo many abfurdities committed, as are now to be found in mofl 



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thing as fuch, but what he has been fully convinced of by his own experience : he hopes therefore for 



indulgence from the public, for any imperfe6iions or omilTions which 



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editions, is in this omitted, many edi- 

 tions of that piece having been printed in oclavo ; it is prefumed therefore that few perfons who 

 have any inclination for the innocent diverfion of gardening, are without it j and as the adding any 

 thing to this work would have fwelled it greatly, which the author wilhes he could have ftill further 

 fliortened ; and moreover it having been obferved to him, by many of his friends, that few per- 

 fons would chufe to turn over fo large a volume, to find in it the articles they may have in a porta- 

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In thelaft edition of this work, the author adopted in a great meafure the fyftem of LinuaDuS; which" 

 was the prevailing method of ranging plants then in ufe among botanifts ; but as many of the plants 

 which were treated of in the Gardeners Di6lionary, were not to be found in any of Linn^us's w^orks 



then publifhed, Tournefort's 



applied 

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not fully known to' 



and thofe additions being generally confulted for the names of plants, the author has now applied 



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tunity of feeing the plants growing, they are ranged by "him in wrong clafles j as for inftance, the Ilex 

 or Agrifolium is ranged in his fourth clafs, with thofe plants whofe flowers have four ftamina or male 

 organs, and four fligmas or female parts of generation -, whereas thofe plants have male flowers upon 



has nlaced in his nintli 



parts but 



fliould alfo be ranged in his twenty-fecond clafs, for all the fpecies of this genus 



flowers on difterent plants. Thefe, with fome other alterations from Linnseus's fyft:em, have been 



proved by the public. 



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however, moft of thefe varieties are cafually mentioned, to inform the reader of their refpedlive difference. 



which the author hopes will be deemed fufficient 



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