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municatlons to the Publick, hj clivers Notes of theirs, which have 

 pirnip'd to this Defign. And it is ftom the Refult of very tnuch 

 E^X-vevii^f^ce, a»d aft extraorkiinary inclination to cherijh fo innocent 

 and laudable a. diverfion, and to incite an AfFeftion in the Nobles 

 of this '^■Mon towards it, that I hegm to o^en to them fo many of 

 the SecretSj and mofi firecioui Rules of this Myfterious Art, vpithout 

 Impofture, or invidious Referve. ihe very Catalogue of Fruits, 

 and Flowers,/tfr the Orchard and the Parterre, will gratifie the moft 

 innocent of the Senfes, a.nd whoever elfepallhe tofeek.arare and 

 ttniverfal choice for his Plantation .• But this is enough. 



Touching the Method, it is fo obvious that there needs no farther 

 dire&ion-jandthe Confequent will prove fo certain, that aWork of 

 the bufieft pains is by this little Inftfument rendred the moji facile 

 and agreeable, as by which you foall continually prejerve your Gar- 

 den in that perfe&ion of beauty nnd luftre, without confufion or 

 prejudice.* Nor indeed couldwethink^of amore comprehenjive F,x^ 

 pedient, whereby to ajjiji the frail and torpent Memory through fo 

 multifarious and numerous an Employment (^the daily fubjeft of a- 

 Gard'ners care^ then by the Oeconomy and Difcipline into which 

 TPe have here refolv'd it, and which our Indufirious Gardner may 

 himfilf be continually Imi^rov'mg from his own Obfervations and 

 Experience. 



This Ralendar might be confiderably augmented, and recommend 

 it felfio amore Univerfal ufe, by taking in the Monethly Employ- 

 ments of all the parts of Agriculture, as they have been begun to 

 us in Columella, Palladius, de Serres, Auguftino Gallo, our Mark- Col. de R. K, 

 ham, and others}, efpecially 7/ well and ywd^ciovS^y applied to our \\h.it.ci,ii. 

 Climate tfWJez;er^/ Countries : but it were here befides ^wrlnfti- ?■«//. lib. i. 

 tution , nor would the Pages contain them ; what is yet found T^^^'^' 

 vacant has been purpofely /e/>, that our Gardner may fupply as he 

 finds caufi ^ for which reafon likewife we have ran^d both the Fruits 

 and Flowers in Prime after fomwhat a promifcuous Order, and not 

 after the letters of the Alphabet, that the Method might be pur- 

 fud with the leaji dij order. Lajily, 



The Fruits and Flovvers in Prime are to be as well conjidered in 

 relation to their lafting and continuance, as to their maturity and 

 beauty. 



J. E. 



