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fhould apply to a perfon of character in 

 that profeffion. 



In defcribing the manner in which the 

 plant ought to be raifed from the feed, as 

 well as in the fucceeding procefs, I fhall 

 confine myfelf (without regarding the me- 

 thods ufually purfued in Virginia or Mary- 

 land, which, from the difference of the cli- 

 mate, can be of little fervice here) to the 

 practice of the northern colonies of America; 

 as thefe are more parallel in their latitude 

 to England. And there being even a differ- 

 ence between the climate of thefe and that 

 of Great-Britain, to the difadvantage of the 

 latter (I mean with regard to the cultivation 

 of the tobacco plant) I fhall minutely attend 

 to this variation, and in the directions I give 

 endeavour to guard againfl the inconveni- 

 ences of it. Thefe inftruftions fhall like- 

 wife be given in plain and familiar terms, 

 and not in a language that can be only un- 

 derftood by the Botanift or Gardener, that 

 this Treatife may be of general ufe. 



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