PREFACE. 



A Second Publication of this Work 

 affords the Author the pleafing 

 tafk of returning thanks to the Public 

 for the favorable reception it has met 

 with, which gives him great pleafure 

 and fatisfadion. 



*He thinks himfelf obliged, in a 

 particular manner, to thofe Gentlemen 

 who have honored him with letters 

 of approbation of his Work, many 

 of whom have generoufly confeffed 

 the fingular advantage their Pineries 

 have received by applying his pre- 

 paration for deftroying thofe infects 

 fo pernicious and deftruclive to the 

 Ananas or Pine-Apple, which it has 

 effectually completed. 



Many purchafers of the firft edition 



of this work, as well as his friends, 



a 3 having 



