The PREFACE, Wii 
Plants brought into our Stoves with fe 
wiuch Expence, and kept there with fo 
wich Pains, may fill the Eye with 
empty Wonder: But it would be more 
to the Honour of the Poffeffor of them, ta 
have found out the Ufe of one comniins 
Herb at Home, than to have enriched 
our Country with an hundred of the 
others. Nay, in the Eye of Reafon, this 
oftentatious Study is rather a Reproach, 
Why foould he, who has not yet inform= 
ed himfelf thoroughly of the Nature ie 
the neanef Ze which grows: in be 
next Ditch, ranfac the Earth for fo- 
Peign W a Does be not oll un 
der the fame Reproach with the Gene- 
Pality of thofe, who travel for their Tn- 
provement, while they are ignorant of 
all they left at Home; and who aré 
ridiculous in their Inquiries concerning 
the Laws and Government of other 
Gotniries, while they are not able to 
oo a fatisfattory ifoer toany Que- ; 
on whith regards théir own? st 
a have faid thus much to obviate the 
a f -— to whims ae 4 AQUiry 
