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tint to the lovers of Gardening, this his 

 Practice in the Culture of Fruit-trees, 

 Indeed, even after fome of the meets 

 were printed off, his idea, of it's bulk had 

 not extended beyond the limits of a pam- 

 phlet : he was not aware, that by print- 

 ing merely from Pra&ice, before he had 

 planned his Treatife in Manufcript, he 

 was liable (as it has now happened) to 

 encreafe his Pamphlet to a Volume. 



He has only to hope, as general utility 

 was his firfl motive to both thefe publi- 

 cations, that he mall not be accufed of 

 preflimption, if he flatters himfelf that his 

 labours in both will be equally acceptable* 



toowever entirely written by the author of the fol- 

 lowing fheets : whofe claim has fmce been, in fome 

 rneafure, aiTerted,by fubjoining to theTitle-page of the 

 latter Editions, the name of John Abercrombie, 

 t» the more popular one of Mr, Mawe* 



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