GARDEN LETTERS 177 



these matters, nor shall they be able to make me to 

 desist from my designe, so long as you reanimate 

 my languishings, and pardon my imperfections. I 

 greately thanke you for your discourses, and the 

 acoustic diagramme, &c. I shall be a faithfull 

 reporter of your favours to me. In my philosophico- 

 medicall garden you can impart to me extraordinary 

 assistances as likewise in my coronary chapter, and 

 that of transmutations, c. 1. lib. 3. Norwich is a 

 place, I understand, which is very much addicted to 

 the flowry part ; and what indeede may I not 

 promise myselfe from your ingenuity, science, and 

 candor ? And now to shew you how farr I am 

 aduanced in my worke, though I haue drawne it in 

 loose sheetes, almost euery chapter rudely, yet 1 cannot 

 say to haue finished any thing tollerably farther than 

 chapter xi. lib. 2, and those which are so completed 

 are yet so written that I can at pleasure inserte what- 

 soeuer shall come to hand to obelize, correct, improve 

 and adorne it. That chapt. of the history of gardens 

 being the 7th of the last booke, is in a manner finished 

 by itselfe, and, if it be not ouer tedious, I think it will 

 extreamely gratifie the reader : for I do comprehend 

 them as vniversally as the chapter will beare it, and yet 

 am as particular in the descriptions as is possible, 



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