VI 



The PREFACE. 



fajl'mg them up07i Papery and writt72g 

 heir Na^nes to them : He does welL 



When he grows a Man^ he 7tegleEis 



is ufeful Labours y and perhaps de 



fpifes hijnfelf for the Mif employ ment of 



much Time : But if he has^ to the 



Knowledge of their FormSy added 

 terward the Study of their Virtues^ he 



ISC ill be ^ far from ce? firing himfelf f 



the Pains he took to that E?td. 

 He who wifhes well to Science and 



to Marikind^ mufl wifj this Matter un- 

 derflood: And this is the Way to bri72g 



a Part of Kfiowledge iftto Credit'^ which ^ 

 as it is co7nmonly praEiifed^ is not a 



It above the Studies of a Raifer , of 



Tulips or a Carnatw^z-farifer, 



Whe7i we confder the St 

 Plants^ as the Search of Re77tedies f 

 DifeafeSj we fee it in the Light of one 

 of the mofl ho7tourable Scie7ices in the 



\ 



World \ in this View 720 Pai72S are too 

 great to have bee7i he f owed in its Ac- 

 quire7nent ; a72d in this Litent. the 



principal Regard ought to be had to 

 hofe of our own Growth. The foreign 



Plants 



