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the Names of this Author: and thefe Names not 
being found in any of the prefent Writings on the 
Subjedt : they are therefore defective on this impor- 
tant Head. , 
Some Method of Botany muft be adopted in a 
Book of Gardening ; and Tournerort’s bas been 
taken in the moft popular Work: of this Kind: but 
that Author’s Method is now utterly rejeéted, and 
the Work, being dependent on it, is rendered fo far 
obfoleie. We foall, in this, follow the Syftem of 
Linnazus, which we fhail deliver compleatly, ex- 
plaining bis Terms. As the whole of the Science 
will be comprehended in the Work, we fball make 
it alfo familiar, plain, and eafily intelligible: the 
unlearned foall, in this Book, underftand the Syftem \ done. 
of that celebrated Author. Aes 
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| Example, produce one Infance, out of Thoufands. — 
We will fuppofe a Gentleman charmed with thé 
Fragrance of the jingle Rocket, aud with the thick 
Spike of the double, and that be is defirous to under- 
ftand what be fo much admires: he will, for this 
Purpofe, turn to the Book of moft received Reputa- 
tion, and look for Rocket ; but he will look in vain: 
the Word is not in the Alphabet; and who ever 
thought of the Index of a Diftionary: 
- This is a common Flower; a Gardener’s Book 
foould not be without the Terin int its proper Place: 
if the Plant were not treated under the Enelifh 
Name, that Word foculd have been inferted with a 
Reference to the proper Latin one: but this is not 
We will fuppofe the Gentleman to purfue his 
Yo this End, as the new Method, tho’ greatly Search, and lock for Rocket in a common Diéiienary, 
efteemed, is fuppofed to be abjirufe and difficult, 
we foall, in the firft Numbers, explain it as Oc- 
that he may find what is Latin for its and then turn 
to it in the other. He finds the Word there, and 
cafions arife, under the feveral fucceffive Heads, in | fees for its Latin Name Eruca. 
the mot intelligible Words.” This will give a gene- 
ral Idea of it, which we fhall afterwards occafionally 
illufirate under the fucceeding Articles. 
In the Difpofition of the Plants, we fhall confider 
them as divided into fo many Affortments as there 
are Weeks in the Year; and Joall treat of them 
" diftintily as they come into Flower in the follow- 
ing Order. We fhall give, 1.7. be general Charaéier 
of cach, 2. Its Names, vulgar, common, and pro- 
per. 3. lis Defcription ; and under this Head, from 
the Charatier of the Flower, we fall fhew its Clafs 
in the Linnzean Sytem, and, 4. Its Culture. 
The practical Part will be delivered as care- 
— fully, and in this all will be plain and eafy: 
no Latin Names, nor Terms Of Art will be .there 
inferted: the meaneft Labourer will underftand it. 
The general Subjeé will naturally fall under four 
Heads: 1. The Conftruétion of a Garden. 2. The 
keeping it in Order. 3. The Produéts of Ufe; and, 
4. The Produtis of Pleafure: and we fhall be full, 
expre/s, and praétical on each. We foall foew how 
to make a good Garden in any Soil; how to difpofe 
the Ground to the beft Advantage in any Situation ; 
how to manage it when made, and in what Man- 
ner to rejoice the Palate and the Eye with all its 
Produéis. 
| by no other, and therefore will, 
_ He looks for Eruca in his Gardeners Book ; and 
be finds it; but he meets with no Information. He 
reads that there are fix Kinds of Rocket ; and that 
four of them are Plants: of no Uje or Beauty, and 
the two others Sallad Herbs. : Wo 
This is all, and it is plain nothing be there reads 
relaies to the Plants, concerning which he is defirous. 
to be informed. | WS 
Rocket is indeed a wrong Name for that Herbs 
| but foould not a Writer in this Way, have, in its 
due Place, informed him fo? though a falfe Name, 
it is an univerfal one: the Plant is commonly called 
by the Generality, 
be look’d for under no other. 
CHGS Os. | 
That the fame Word when ufed as the Name of a 
Flower, is applied to the Plant Llefperis 5 the proper 
Englifh Name of which is Dame's Violet. Under 
eutber of which Names it will be found in our Book. 
We foall acquaint him that this right Name He/peris, 
| was given to the Jingle Kind, becaufe of its great 
We foall, in the proper Parts, from Pra&tice and Sweeine/s toward Sun-fet; that Word in Greeb Sig 
Experience, add to the common Knowledge of the 
Gardener, the certain Methods of producing the fineft 
fruits in their beft Perfecticn ; and we foall deliver 
the bitherto unpublifo’d Secret of raifing Striped 
Leaves and double Flowers. Under this particular 
Head we are favour’d with fome Communications 
from Holland and from France, which have been 
try’d and found fuccefsful, and may therefore be 
made public to Advantage. . 
To compleat the Article of Flowers, Shrubs, and 
curious Plants, we foall illuftrate our Defcriptions 
with figures elegantly engrav’d: they will be drawn 
from Nature; and for thofe who chufe it, will be 
colour’d in the moft elegant Manner.» 
"Tis Mfagreeable to defend to Particulars, with 
Refpetl to the Défetis of other Writers, but Since 
what bas been bere faid, may be called 
without farther Proof, 
I 
we fhall, as an univer fal 
idle Words, . 
nifying the Evening. 
We fhall, in this Manner, ofcertain the proper 
Names of all Plants raifed in Gardens; and in this, 
and innumerable other fuch Lnftances, Things will be 
thrown into their right Courfe ; the Gentleman wilf 
infiruct bis Gardener what to call Plants 5 
him for that InftruGtion. 
When we have in this Lnflance fhewn what the 
ferb vulgarly called Rocket, is, we foall dire the 
proper Place and Ufe of the Single , and the Method 
of producing the double Kind. Delivering its Qua- 
lities and Ufe, illuftrated with its figure: and. fo 
not £0 ta 
Method we fhall follow in every Article. Shewing 
: what the Herbs, 
flowers and Fruits, proper for a Garden, are, 
and bow to raife each to its full Perfection, 
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