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they thought the employment extremely 

 pleafant in temperate weather, and fhould 

 like to do many things themfelves, could 

 they be certain their labour would be pro- 

 perly applied. I, indeed, thought my fchool- 

 education too najTow for fuch an under- 

 taking, but my friends perfuaded me, that 

 polite expreilions were not expefted in 

 fuch a performance ^ and therefore, I flatter 

 myfelf its rude flile will be excufed by the 

 learned reader. 



I HAVE Ihewn by copper-plates the 

 fliapes that I train the feveral forts of 

 Fruit-trees to ; and have likewife given rules 

 for the doing of it. Some of my words 

 were changed by the Correftor of the Prefs, 

 for others he thought more clear and pro- 

 per.: but 1 have carefully examined every 

 iliect, in time of printing, and declare, that 

 my methods of ordering Fruit-trees are 

 juilly publifhed, without either refei-ve or 

 addition, which v/as the thing defired by 

 my friends, v/ho niuft know what fuccefs 

 hath attended my practice. 



I HAVE net given any account what cli- 

 mate the feveral kinds of fruits were ori- 

 ginally brought from ; for that is known to 

 the learned, and is not wanted by others. 



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