Jttit ~ 



HISTORY 



O F 



Jrtifieial propagation ofTlantsi 



GAP. I. 



Of Propagation by Seed. 



Num. I- Of Propagation of Vegetables in general, with 

 a Preface to the Difconrfe. 



He Illuftrious and Renowned Lord Bacon, 

 in his Difcourfe concerning the advance- 

 ment of Learning, reckons it among the 

 Deficients of Natural Hiftory, That the 

 Cooperation of Man , with N atari in parti- 

 Hilars, hath not been obferved ; and that in tjjoje Q>1- 

 Icttions which are made of Agriculture, and ether ma- 

 nual tArts, there is commonly * negleft and rejcElionof 

 Experiment s, familiar and vulgar, which jet to the in- 

 terpretation ofNatnrey and which I fhall adde,general 

 profit, do at much, if not more conduce, then Experiment* 

 if a higher quality The fame noble Pcsfon, in his 



& pir- 



