XXX The PREFACE. 



the greateft Blemifli that is charg'd upon the 

 Meraory of one of our greateft Mafter-Gar- 

 deners 5 for thofe Perfons, fuppofing they are 

 to be going away, and to hold their Places by 

 a precarious Tenure, care not what they do t 

 And tho' this holds good in all Cafes, yet 

 in Gardening 'tis attended with Confequences 

 more pernicious than in any other Bufinefs. 



The Author and Abridger of The Com- 

 peat Gardener wou*d have him not to be 

 too Old, not too Young. In this, every 

 Gentleman s own Cafe is his beft Direftor. 

 But this wou'd be hard upon a great part 

 of this Profeflion, whofe Misfortune 'twou d 

 be to live too long. 



That after they have fpent the Vigour of 

 their Lives in Service, (and perhaps fuch 

 as were not profitable enough to lay up 

 much Money in) to be turn'd out to beg 

 in their Old Age, and after a long Scene of 

 Bufinefs and Slavery, that has brought them 

 to a more helplefs State than any other 

 People, are miferable Thoughts. But the 

 farther profecution of this 1 leave to the 

 Management of thofe pious and charitably 

 Divines, w^hofe Difcourfes on Subjefts df 

 this kind will appear very bright in tte 

 Hiflory of thefe Times. 



1 need fay little of other Qualifications, as 

 to Learning, &c. it being what is not fo 

 generally miftaken as other Things are 5 but 

 ihal] only remark en this Head, That too 

 many Gtntiemen are very fparing to thefe 



Servants, 



