THE 



PREFACE. 



/N Compliance with the general Cufiom which 

 has made it necejfary for every Author^ who 

 offers his Sentiments to the Public^ to give a 

 Reafon why he addreffes fo reJpeBable a Body, I 

 jhall in a few Words declare, that my Motives 

 were the hove of my Country, and a Defre of 

 communicating to its Members, the Advantage 

 my T'ravels and my Pleafures have given me, in 

 the particular Science I have treated of 



Our Situation not being fo well adapted as 

 others to the Purpofes of Vegetation, requires the 

 Hand of Indujlry and Experience to forward its 

 Lnprovements, in both which I have been atten- 

 tive : The latter has been extended to upwards of 

 Twenty Tears, in which Time, Diaries have been 

 A 2 carefully 



