\A GrAtnlation unto the Author, upon his Hlfiory of 

 thePr&fagationof Vegetables. 



t^Ee'l blame Antiquity no more, than flie 



Has fwallowed Solomons Phytology ; 

 Thofe long-loft facred Relicts you revive, 

 Limning the nature of each Vegetive. 

 ^Natures moft hidden ftore, you open fet, 

 As if y 'were keeper to her Cabinet. 

 Mid'tf Plants and Trees you mufe,thence we confefc 

 England again hath got her Dmides ; 

 Your Garden, a new Academy ; can 

 Be made Lye mm, -or turn'd Vatican. 



So the fam'd Epicure, long fiace did try 

 To make his Garden teach Phyiofophy ; 

 Where he, by (hufl'wg Atomes, represents 

 All changes; a£Wof Elements 

 He then laid out, and (what was yet more high-,) 

 Eoldly discarded Heavens Deity. 

 You flight that ^/<y, and lliev there's no [equeacy 

 No fait of things, without a Providence. 

 Each Herb's engraven'd with a Heavenly Frame, 

 Like t\\ Hyacinth enftamp'd with *Ajax\ name : 

 As a mytlerious Rabbin's wont to fpell 

 The name of God, from a dark Syllable ; 

 So you read him in's fecrets works ; Each clod 

 Speaks th'God of Nature, makes not Nature God. 



May thefe your Vegetives, thus ordered, prove 

 A Vocal Forrefi, or Vo dona's, Grove. 

 To fpeak your worth, that fo our non-plus'd cry 

 May be aflifted by Dendrology. 



Edi$pe»ctr?elUo£ N.C. 



