130 Of the Management^ and 



chiefly to the exterior Parts of^our Defign* 

 ancf relerve the interior Parts, as Flower, 

 Kitchen, and Fruit Gardens, for the Clofe 

 of ^y whole Defiga in this general Sjftem 

 of Ifigricultur'e and Gardening. 



But, before I proceed ro this, I muft cb- 

 ferve, that the Method I have taken is difTe- 

 rent from that obferv'd by .thofe that have 

 gone before nie 5 and the Triich is, Hus- 

 bandry is fo very much improved, fincc many 

 or moft of thofv! Trafts were written, that 

 they would have afforded me little Affiftance, 

 and for that Reafon I have confuUed them 

 very little, or no otherwife, tlian to avoid 

 th§ Metho3 they have taken; but have 

 drawn thefe Papers together from my own 

 Obfervation?^ and the prelent Practice of 

 our bxft Husbandmen and Gardeners, col- 

 lefied as they have been by my own Labour 

 and Pains in my Pafiage thrc>' the beft Coun- 

 tries for Husbandry in this Kingdom. 



And, that 1 might make thtm fti!l the 

 more ufeful and intelligible to the Gentle- 

 man and Gardener, I have endeavour'd to 

 affign th.e natural Reafon of Things to every 

 Precepr, which v/ill undoubtedly make the 

 greater impreffion on the Mind, and all 

 Practitioners will have the clearer Idea of 

 what they are in every Refpeft to do, for 

 (as is already hinted in the fiift Volume) it 

 is in Gardening and all ether ingenious Amufe- 

 mems, as it is in Theology, Phiiofophy, d^^r. 



wherein 



