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them, yet will they make their Nefls in *em, 

 and thereby do you a confiderable Damage. 



I am come now to a Conclufion of my 

 Work 3 and if I have, towards the latter 

 End, touch'd upon fome Sabjeds which I 

 did not feem to intimate in the Beginning, 

 I doubt not but they will be excufable, fince 

 it was the more eflFedually to mix the pro- 

 fitable Part of Gardening with that of the 

 pleafurable, and to perfue the Improvements 

 of Lands in the utmoft Latitude. This I 

 was advifed to by my Friends 5 and, upon 

 a thorough Refledion, I thought it entirely 

 confiftent with my Defign of both Diverting 

 and, Inftruding the Publick ^ fo that I have 

 made a fmall Alteration in my Method 5 

 and leaft I fhould tire the Patience of my 

 Reader, I have omited, for the moft Part, in 

 my two laft Volumes, all Drefs which might 

 feem fuperfluous, and kept more entire to In- 

 formations 5 which I am perfuaded cannot be 

 diflik'd, but on the contrary approv'd, fince 

 it lefTens the Price of the Performance, as 

 well as contrads it. 



I do not pretend to accufe any Perfons 

 of borrowing from other Writers, or pre- 

 fume to fay that my Book is free from any 

 Thing of that Nature, as does the Reverend 

 Mr. Laurence'^ I am not afliam'd to confefs 

 that I have taken feveral valuable tiinrs 



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