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Servants, and think that Fifteen or Twenty 

 Pounds J^er Annum is extraordinary, or too 

 niuch to give a Gardener 5 when in truth 

 their very Livery-Servants are as great or a 

 greater Charge 5 tho' both their Learning 

 and Pains is or ought to be equal to the beft 

 Servant in their Families 5 and what with 

 Books, Mathematical Inftruments, and the 

 like, their Rewards ought to be the more. 

 To make a good Ingenious Gardener, as 

 much Learning is required, perhaps, as the 

 Steward, or any other Artizan or Servant 

 which Perfons of Quality or Others have 

 attending them : And were this more en- 

 couraged, what might not be expefted in a 

 Country whofe known Charader is, — - 

 Inventis addere. 



And how much to the Advantage of Gar- 

 dening it might be, if Young Perfons, de- 

 figned for this Employ, were not only in- 

 ftrufted in Mathe7natical and Grammatical^ 

 but alfo in Fhilofophical Knowledge, I leave 

 to the Determination of the Ingenious in 

 that way. 



My next Advice is. To fet apart fuch a 

 portion out of the Revenue as can be con- 

 veniently fpar'd, and that the fame be Week- 

 ly applied to the Difcharge of the Expence 5 

 for that Labourers Unpaid, are of courfe the 

 moft Impertinent, Troublefbrae Perfons that 

 may be ^ and by their CLimour, Noife and 

 Thievery, occaGon a very large Alloy in 

 and Difcount from the Pleafiires of a Coun- 

 try Life. Two, 



