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avhen Seafons were very kind. And as the Perfpiration of Fruits is a 
new Difcovery, their paft Errors are pardonable ; but for the future ’tis 
expetted, that they are no more prattifed, and the following ftrittly 
— executed, whereby every Gentleman will receive bis Fruits in the utmoft 
Perfettion, that bis Soil and the Seafon can produce. 
THE following Works ave, in general, Matters of Fatt, digefted in 
fuch a Manner as to be read by every one that defires to know the Reafons 
and Conféequences of all their Operations, which I bumbly conceive will 
be no lefs Delightful than Profitable 5 the Whole being a new Segpe of 
Nature, wherein her wonderful Methods of Working, thro out her varéous 
Produttions, ave fully demonftrated, in a concife and eafy Manner, cal- 
culated to the Underftanding of the meaneft Capacity, as well as the moft 
Polite and Learned. herein, i 
"TIS very probable, that, at the firft Sight hereof, Gardeners may 
be unwilling to depart from their old, uncertain, conceited Methods, 
believing themfelves either too old, or too well learned, to learn more than 
they already know 5 or may imagine, that what is bere offéved for their 
Improvements, may be bare Chimera’s only, lke unto all which has 
dees wrote on this Subjett by Theovical Gardeners, who never bad (or 
were bred d to) ee ttice But pokes f they avill but age read, 
foon aa Opinions 7 
ai T is a very great Miftake and Misfortune, when Noblemen and — 
Gentlemen cannot be fix'd with good Gardeners; but are always changing, 
and very often from a bad to a worfe, which at firft is not. diftover'd, 
till _fome terrible Stroke is made among the Fruit-Trees, —_ to tbe 
utter Ruin of them, and then ‘tis too fore to be retvieveds 
THERE is a certam Kind of People j in Pinhead aul fae been 
employ’ d in the labouring Part of Gardening, perbaps but for one Month 
only, will then put on Aprons, and call themfelves Gardener's, tho’, at 
the fame time, they in falt ave no more shim W wap a Men, ana 
very ise br worthy of that Office. | 
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