PREFACE. 



not have communicated my Obfervatiotis^ or my 

 Coimtrymen ivanted any other 'Tutor : But Provi- 

 dence in his Wifdom has directed it otherwife^ by 

 which the Ingenuity of Mankind has had Variety 

 of Employ^ and the Field of Invention been fo en- 

 larged, as to excite their Indvftry, which otherwife 

 would have been negleBed. 



The Compojis I recommend have not been hafily 

 takefi up, but from an attejitive Confidtation with 

 the befl Florifis, where each curious Flower enjoyed 

 its natural Clime -J and this further I have to add, 

 that each Sort has bee?! repeatedly ufed, and with 

 a Succefs that muflpleafe every Lover of the Art, 



I have fubjoined a Treatife oji the Culture of 

 fuch Forefl Trees as have been efteemed the mojl 

 valuable ; in it is given the Experie?tce of much 

 Labour and Expence, attended with many Dif- 

 appointments, but in the End happily accompliflo- 

 ed', and for the SatisfaMion of Poflerity let me 

 affure them, they will fiot hazard their Succefs by 

 implicitly givijig up to my T)ire5iions, being the 

 Refult of Forty Tears Experience, and of this 

 the Woods and Plantations o?i my Demefne, foew 

 how far the Practice is right. 



In the Courfe of thefe DireBions, I may be 

 thought to have beeti too minute, a?id even to have 

 been guilty of fome Repetitions, but in thefe I 

 hope to be indidged^ as it arofe fro^n the Manner 



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