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Thus in Fruits ^ two or three kinds of 

 Cherries, and four or five of Plums at the 

 moft, three or four kinds of Apricots, of the 

 beft kinds of Peaches and Pears not above half 

 a dozen each, and of Apples not above three 

 or four 5 thefe being well manag'd, will fuf- 

 ficiently fupply any Table communis menfibus 

 annu 



The like do I obferve in Foreft-Trees^ out 

 of the many Sorts whereof, I (hall only colled 

 a few of the nobleft and freeft- growing 

 Kinds. 



I (hall not follow the Method taken by any 

 of the preceding Writers, in the Delivery of 

 their Precepts, which are either alphabetically 

 or cafually, as the Trees they have treated of 

 have found a priority in their AfFedion and 

 Efteem 5 but I (hall take that hinted at by 

 Virgil^ who has claflically reduc'd all the 

 Species into one Article, according to the 

 Method of their Propagation. Thus he 

 ranks the Genifia among the Spontaneous 5 the 

 Oak, Chefnut, and all the other Kinds, whe- 

 ther Glandiferous^ Bacciferoii^^ 5cc. to his 

 Seed-Beds 3 the Elm to the Exuberances of 

 the Mother-Roots 3 and the reft to the feveral 

 more artificial Methods of Avulfion,InfofGon, 

 Arcuation, &c. This Order will^ I hope, 

 take away that Repetition that one often finds 

 in thofe Authors, there being one and the 

 fame Culture and Management again and 

 again repeated. 



