Th PREFACE. 
BY that time that thefe Sort of People have comtinu'd in fuch Em- 
ploys about the Space of a Year, they begin to enquire what Gentlemen 
avant Gardeners ; and as foon as they hear of any, away they go and 
offer their Service, faying, that they are true-bred Gardeners ; that they 
help’d to make fuch a Nobleman’s Garden ; nay, very often will have 
the Impudence to fay, that they a€tually made it, tho’ but a W heel-barrow 
Man at.moft, as I obferv'd before ; and to clofe up the Whole, make ufe 
of the Name of fome eminent Nurfery-Man, or Gardener, under whom 
they fay they were inftrutted, tho’ perhaps they are wholly unknown to 
bim 
™ AND if they. can by any means come to know what Wages the laft 
Gardener was paid, they alayays ask much lefs 5 that is, if the former 
Gardener ferv'd for 20 \. per Ann. they will ferve for 15, 12, 10, nay, 
for 8, rather than ftand out ; and upon that Account have been very 
often employ'd. 
NOW when a Gentleman bas firft been at a great Expence in building 
new Walls, purchafing Trees, preparing the Soil, planting them ; and 
afterwards five or fix Years Expences in their Ordering, undev the 
Government of a good Gardener, and is then in Hopes, and a fair Way 
of vecerving good Store of Fruits for bis Expencesandduabour; why 
then, perhaps upon (ome.txifingAccomt—or—otber, the Gardener who 
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begins either to cut or flay, without either Fear or Wit, or otherawi fe 
fiffers them to grow im fuch diforderly Manner, that after one fingle 
Year's Growth, ‘tis not im the Power of a skilful Pruner to recover 
them to the fame State, as when they were Jirft committed into the Hands 
of their Executioner, under the Space of three or four Years at the leaft. 
OF thefe Pretenders we have great Numbers annually imported 
from the Northern Parts, who very probably might in time be as good 
Gardeners as any in England, bad they but Modefty enough to be awell 
infirutted by our Englifh Gardeners, before they attempt fuch Under- 
takings. & | 
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