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thefe notes explanations are found of every 

 perfonified plant, it's generic hiftory, it's 

 local fituation, and the nature of the foil 

 and climate to which it is indigenous; it's 

 botanic and its common name. 



The verfe corrected, polimed, and mo- 

 dulated with the moft fedulous attention ; 

 the notes involving fuch great diverfity of 

 matter relating to natural hiftory ; and the 

 competition going forward in the Ihort re- 

 cefles of profeffional attendance, but chiefly 

 in his chaife, as he travelled from one place 

 to another, the Botanic Garden could not 

 be the work of one, two, or three years ; 

 it was ten from its primal lines to its firft 

 publication. The immenfe price which 

 the bookfeller gave for this work, was 

 doubtlefs owing to confiderations which' 

 infpired his trutt in it's popularity. Bo- 

 tany was, at that time, and ftill continues 

 a very fafhionableftudy. Not only philoib- 

 phers, but fine ladies and gentlemen, fought 

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