Chap. I . of GARD^NING^ &c. 1 5 



Athenian, (and call'd by him a King 5 ) this 

 Great Perfon is, in other Hiftories, faid, by hi^ 

 Eloquence, to have charm'd that State into a 

 Refignation of their Liberties to his entire 

 Subjedion, and to have ruled them with all 

 imaginable Juftice and Clemency 5 tho* Others 

 call him a Tyrant : This wife State (the Gld- 

 ry of the World) have in all their Writings 

 left the moft affeftionate Marks of Efteem 

 they had for our prefent Subjed. 



Theophraftm^ another of the Grecian Philo- Theophra- 

 fophers, ought not to be left out of this Cata-^^"^* 

 logue of Garden-Virtuofo's^ hew^sbornat£r<?'*■ 

 ///J a Sea-Town: of Lesbos^ near Sigrmm, now 

 caU'd Metyline 3 the Time of his flourifhing 

 is fuppos'd to be about 440 Years from the 

 buililing of Rome, and, SLsSalmafas obferves^ 

 390 Years before the Time that Pliny wrote 

 his Natural Hijlory. His Life is writ by 

 Diogenes Laertms, and from him copied by 

 Heinjius in the Dntch Edition of his Worics^ 

 Printed in Greek and Latin at Ley den, and 

 Dedicated to the States of Holland: What 

 he wrote relating to Gard'ning, was chiefly 

 o{ Botany ^ and indeed, it may be fuppofed to 

 be the Ground-work and Foundation of all 

 that has been writ fince on that Subjed; 

 He fucceeded Ari/lotle, and liv'd in his Gar- 

 den 5 and we may guefs at the great Vene- 

 ration he had for Gard'ning, by the Care he 

 took in his Will (as cited by the forementi- 

 oned Laertius) of bequeathing it to his par^ 

 ticular Friends to Study in, and for the Re- 



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