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for no other reafon but becaufe they do not 

 know what plants are eatable, and how great 

 a plenty there is of them in our countrey, of 

 which D. Hiorth in this volume has given 

 an account, which the moll illuftrious fenator 

 Baron Lowenheilm has tranilated into Swe- 

 diih. Many people wonder, why the curious 

 enquirers into nature will give themfelves fo 

 much trouble about exotic plants ♦, but they 

 do not fufficiently confider, that many kinds 

 of grain^ many roots, legumes, fruits, fallads, 

 and trees in common ufe with us for nou- 

 rifhment, houfehold utenfils, cloathing, and 

 ornament are originally exotics. Here fol- 

 lows a lift of feme, which have lately been 

 brouo-ht into our countrey from the farther- 

 moft parts of Sibiria, that contribute to adorn 

 our gardens, and change our ceconomy. 



Larkfpiir, monks-hood, adonis, vetch, caw parf- 

 nep, French honey-fuckle, afiragalus, othcnna^ 

 .baftard-faffron, greater centory, colomhine, dra- 

 cocephalon, fpeedwell, claytonica, flax, hyacinth, 

 lilly, lychnis, poppy, cat-mint, yellov) -flowered 

 fcige, hooded willow herb, hyffop, wild navew, St. 

 John's wort, fow-thiftle, faw-wort, &c. From 

 that diftant countrey we have the rohinia's and a 

 honey-fuckle, that make excellent quick-hedges ^ 



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