TO MY 

 Worthy and Honored Friend 



of fyUingbam Efquire. 



I not obferved that * Pur- 

 blind* men have difcourfed 

 veil of light, aw!fome*>with- 

 out tflue^ excellently of Gene 

 ration ; / that VP& never ma 

 tter of any confide? able g&den^ had not 

 attempted thfr Subject. B*t the Earth u 

 the Garden tf Nature , and each fruit full 

 Country a Paradije. Diofcoridcs made 

 mo& efhu Obfewations m bit march about 

 wtb Antonius; and Theophraftus rai- 

 S*dhit general/ties chiefly from the fi kid. 



toftd* we mite no Hcrball^ nor can thu 

 Volwu* deoeiveyo*, who have handled the ffortu 

 mafftefl thereof: vko tym that three 

 d Folio / are yet too little ^ and bow Nw 

 Verbals flj from America ufon w, from 



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