BOOK FIRST. 



THE 



INTRODUCTION. 



THIS branch of Gardening certainly 

 favours more of luxury than any 

 other ; at the fame time it muft be allowed 

 to be a moft rational amufement, profit and 

 pleafure being in fome meafure blended to- 

 gether. 



Hereby, not only the moft rare Euro- 

 pean plants, but alfo thofe of Africa, Alia, 

 and America, are cultivated and brought 

 to very confiderable perfection, and to the 

 intimate acquaintance of the Botanift, who, 

 otherwife, would be obliged to place im- 

 plicit confidence in the authors of diftant 

 countries, or take expenlive voyages to 

 enable him fully to purfue his ftudies. 



A Hereby, 



