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book is printed in Folio, the latter in 8vo. His great 

 Gardeners' Dictionary in Folio was some time back, in the 

 summer of 1752, republished with many corrections and 

 additions, after it had first been translated and printed 

 in several languages. 



As regards the common opinion of Miller's Gardeners' 

 Dictionary, I have asked several of the greatest and best 

 horticulturists both in England and America, what author 

 and what book they had found and believed to be the 

 best in Horticulture, not only as regards a number of 

 rare plants, but in particular those which are planted for 

 the kitchen and Fabriquer, both trees and plants. They 

 have all answered with one mouth, Miller's Gardeners' 

 Dictionary, either in Folio, or the abstract in 8vo., 

 was the best of all, and that when one has it, no other 

 book is afterwards required, because there is found 

 in it everything that is in the others, and much 

 more besides, and that both more clearly and better 

 worked out than in any other, although the others often 

 have manifold more words. The same answer I have 

 also got from several distinguished persons who had them- 

 selves had a particular pleasure in planting trees and 

 plants with their own hands. If any of the Lords and 

 the great " Herrar " in England wished to lay out a new 

 garden, or to remake an old one, Mr. Miller would always 

 show them how it ought to be done. When the greatest 

 lords drove out to their estates, he often drove out with 

 them in the same carriage, i samma vagn. In a word, 

 the principal people in the land set a particular value on 

 this man. 



