vlii the PREFACE. 



Defigns thcmfelves, which I fliall take more 

 notice of in due Time and Place. 



As for feveral other Books that have been 

 printed in our own Language, I have neither 

 the Vanity nor Ill-will of cenfuring or con- 

 demning any thing that is contained in them ^ 

 but rather pay a great deal of Refped to the 

 Memory of their Editors, and fliall make ufe 

 of thofe Writings^whete-ever they agree with 

 our prefent Method : But many of them be-? 

 ing writ fome Years ago, before Gardening 

 was fo well known as 'tis now ^ ^nd others 

 being of fo mean a Tafleas fcarce to Bear Read- 

 ing at all 3 I cann't but after much Thought 

 be of an humble Opinion, that the prefent 

 Undertaking will be of fome Ufe to the 

 World. 



Th6 Reafon of this Omiflion I have been 



hinting at, I mean the want of more and 



better Garden Originals, feems to be that 



great Hurry which thofe (^) Gentlemen have 



been always in, to whofe Share the chief 



Practice (as well as Profit) of Gardening has 



fallen 5 fince had their Leifure been equal to 



their Experience, the World might from 



them have reafonably expected the compleat- 



eft Syftem of Gard'mng that any Age or 



Country has produced : 'Tis to them we owe 



many of thofe valuable Precepts in Gardening 



now in ufe, and their Memory ought to be 



tranfmitted to Pofterity with the feme Care 



■ ,^i I m II II I — 



(^a)- Mr, loUon and Wiic. 



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