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hot to contemn, but accurately to remark 

 thofe remedies, which are cried up amongft 

 the common people. For he who boafts of 

 knowing more of the virtues of (imples, than 

 what "^ tafte, fmell, ^ fru6bification, and experi- 

 ments will fuggefl, vehemently deceives, or is 

 deceived. 



Ye who intend one of thefe days to culti- 

 vate your native foil with advantage, and pro- 

 fit, may be afTured that you will find nothing 

 in all the books of hufbandry, that will be of 

 fuch afiiftance to you in that art, as travelling 

 thro' the different provinces of this kingdom. 

 In fome parts, and thofe the moft barren, you 



* Vid. Ami^nlt, academ, vol. 2. p. 371. in an exprefs 

 treatife on this fabje£l the author quotes feveral eminent 

 phyficians both ancient and modern, who maintained the 

 fame opinion as to taftes. And vol. 3. p. 183. where the 

 afti (lance to be had from fmell is confidered, and the ef- 

 fe£ls of odors amply treated on. 



*■ Fru6lification. The reader perhaps may be at a lofs to 

 underl^and this. The meaning of it is, that plants which 

 agree in the genus and even in the clafs agree alfo in their 

 vertues. Thus the leaves of all the grafies are good for 

 cattle, the leffer feeds for fmall birds, the greater for man, 

 and this without exception. The flellated plants of Ray 

 are diuretic, the rough-leaved plants of the fame author 

 are aftringent and vulnerary. Plants with a pea-Hower are 

 all wholefome for cattle and man, &c. Vid. a curious tirea- 

 tife on ti^i^ lubjedl, in the Academ. vol. 1. p. 389. 



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