xxlv The PREFACE. 



to fall under the Direftion of the moft Skil- 

 ful in this Way. 



Add to this the Round-about Ways, and 

 confequently Expences, Gentlemen, in this 

 unhappy Method, are put to ^ for thefe Per- 

 fons being (hrewd Calculators of Line and 

 Level, have perhaps as much Earth to bring in, 

 or carry out, as, befides the Expences, has no 

 other EfFed but to make the Matter yet worfe. 



By this time the Gentleman may fee the 

 Errors into which he is infenfibly drawn 3 but 

 the Mifery of it is, 'tis perhaps fo late, that 

 he thanks neither his Fortune nor his Friend 

 for making him thus dear and experimentally 

 wife ^ and the farther purfuit of Gard'ning 

 is entirely laid afide. 



To compleat this Matter, there are like- 

 wife fevcral Artizans or Mechanicks that e- 

 lope their own Province, and by pretending 

 to give Dejigns in Gard'ning, are guilty of 

 a great Crime 5 Gard'ning being in all its 

 Circuniftances the moftextenfive Art of any, 

 and therefore not fo eafily to be meddled with 

 as they think. 



There are likewife feveral Northern Lads, 

 which whether they have ferv'd any time in 

 this Art, or not, very few of us know any 

 thing of^ yet by the help of a little Learn- 

 ing, and a great deal of Impudence, they in- 

 vade thefe Southern Provinces ^ and the na- 

 tural Benignity of this Warmer Climate has 

 fuch a wonderful Influence on them, that 

 one of them knows (or at leaft pretends to 



know) 



