; but no 
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| This eholh tract of continent lying within the northern part of the temperate zone} pros | 
| duces few plants but what will ftand the rigour. of our winters in England ; for it ds remarkable, 
that notwithftanding the moft fouthern part of the Enolith colonies on the continent of Ame-~. 
Tica are twenty degrees more froath than England, the cold is there no lefs fevere than it is in 
“England itfelf; and confequently their plants are fo much the better adapted to the air of our 
more northern fituation: and indeed, experience has fufficiently proved how well the Englifh 
foil and climate agree with thefe plants ; for though they are not equally hardy, and fome 
(when fmall) require a little protection, yet. there are other kinds which brave our winters as 
— as if they were our own productions, a. Sos * 
By a long acquaintance with the trees and fhrubs of America, and a conftant attention Gia 
for feyeral years to their cultivation here, I have been enabled to make fuch Obfervations on 
their conftitution, growth, and culture, as may render the management of them eafy to thofe 
who fhall be defirous to inrich their.country, and give pleafure to themfelves, by planting and. 
increafing thefe beautiful exotics; and I fhall think myfelf very happy, if this little work may 
excite any to what in my opinion is evidently a public good. * | 
Few people have opportunities of procuring thefe things from America; ; wherefore, left I 
fhould feem to treat of what cannot be got at all, or with very great difficulty, it feems proper 
to mention, that Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his bufinefs to raife and 
eatevate the plants of America (from whence he has annually freth fupplies) in order to 
furnifh the Curious with what they want; and_ that through his induftry and {kill a greater 
| variety of American foreft-trees and fhrubs may be feen in his gardens, than in any other place 
= in England. 
2S thofe who are defirous and have it in their power to procure large quantities of feeds and 
| sue fron America, may be at a lofs what inftrudtions to fend their correfpondents abroad, I 
have been particular i in giving an account where the feveral kinds of plants are to be found that 
| ) ‘are uncommon, and in directing how they are to be collected, packed up, and fecured, fo as 
= “to preferve them in good condition during their paflage 5 ; ‘which are matters oF the utmoft con- 
; — though lef known even than their culture. 3 
_ The whole number of trees and fhrubs here treated of confift of Sie. fixty-three of 
ich are graved; and their figures here exhibited; the remaining twenty-two are defcribed, 
2 ‘ aved, which i is thought altogether unneceflary, becaufe their defcription alone gives 
a ‘clear idea of th 
: | ther — = other affliftance ; wus is not the Cale of thofe that are 
— figured. = | 
