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, HE Number of Works already extant on | every Article re{pecting the Management of thé 
this Subjeét, has not deterred the Author | Kitchen and Fruit Ground foall be thus explained. On 
from this Undertaking, becaufe he fees | the other hand, as the Names of Flowers and curious 
the Imperfections and the Errors which abound in| Plants are the proper Knowledge of the Gentleman, 
all. Some of thofe Pieces have been compiled by \ they will be treated in the Manner of Science; and 
Perfons who had neither ‘fudgment nor prattical | be will be taught to {peak of them in proper Terms. 
Knowledge, others by fuch as were acquainted but The general Method and Diftribution of the 
with fome one Part, and deficient in all the ret; | Work for each Week, will be this: we fhall 
and the very beft of them (how often foever new | arrange the while that concerns the Culture of 
drefs'd and alter’d to the Time) are really antiquated, | Plants, under four Heads, as it regards, 1. The 
and deficient in the modern great Improvements. | Flower Garden, with its great Ornaments, thé 
They have been received by the Public only becaufe Greenboufe and Stove. 2. The Seminary or Nurfery 
there were no better: for all who read them find | for its Supply. 3. The Fruit Garden including 
their Defetis ; and perceive the Neceffity of a more \ the Wall, Efpalier, and Orchard Trees. 4. The 
comprebenfive and lefs erroneous Work. Kitchen Garden; comprehending under that Head thé 
Hitherto, thofe who bave written on Gardening, | natural and artificial Methods. 
have been uninformed of the Principles on which This general Divifion will difpofe the whole into 
that Art foould be founded: the Intent here is to | four Seétions; and under each of thefe, the Parti- 
explain the feveral Methods. of bringing it, in each \ cylars will be deliverd in feparate Chaise We 
Branch, to Perfection, to unite the Science of Botany | oye including an Account of the Produéis that dre 
to the Arts of Culture: to apply Philofophy to Gar- | in Seafon; and the Care and Culture of the Ground. 
dening ; and make it raife mee Scenes wherein i Under the Settion relating to the Flower Garden, 
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takes Delight. the firft Chapter will contain an Account of the 
We foall endeavour to inform the Gentleman | Figqwers and curious Plants that Week in their Per- 
and Mechanic together, to eftablifo the one as the fettion: not a bare Lift of them, as others have 
Head to plan and to condutt, and accomplifh the | contented themfelves to give; but a compleat Hiftory 
other as the Hand to execute. To the Gentleman of each, with its Method of Culture. 
we foall explain ‘the Struéiure and Particularities The if ‘siedtitdbinié Poe Obie “wii Ses dl 
of the feveral Species of Flowers; the more ufual, | , f that Part of the Ground, ee 
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and thofe newly raifed by the Indufiry of our The Settion: relating to the Seminary will be dif- 
Florifts,; as alfo of the curious Planis introduced patched in a Jingle Chapter , for there the Culrund 
from Afia and America within the laft thirty 
is all, there being intended in that Part no Produit 
Years. Thefe are a vaft Number, they compofe of Perfection. 
th ined Part of the Study at ts 
e moft valued Part of the Study at prefent s and Under the third Settion we fhall give an yi 
they have yet been treated of by none in this Way; 
their very Names not being found.in any Book a count of the Fruits that Wi eek in Seafon, with their 
this Subjeé. | proper Names and Defcriptions: from this every 
The working Gandener we foall, in the fame oe co OEE dy EES FO AA DNEES 1a Poa gs 
Names to call thofe he fees: and after this will be 
Manner, inftruét in his Province ; and direét him ddneid ge C aE 
plainly what be ought to do in every Article of bis Oy Bie oy oe me Mee of Fruit Trees 
Profefion. We fall fhew how the worft Soil may : 7 
if eft In the fame Manner, under our laft Seétion, will 
be render'd fruitful, by proper Additions: and have- ae aes 
be given firft a Lift of the Kitchen. Garden Produéfts 
ing thus prepared the Ground for yielding its Pro- . | : | 
duéts, and taught bim how to raife them, we foall Hi a fe - Uje; and afterwards the Management of 
the Ground. 
lay down the Methods of difpofing it into Form, and | 
the moft fuccefsful Way of planting it for Ufe and In thefe Parts we foall mot content ourfélves to 
vetail to the Reader what is to be found in other 
We fhall comprehend the Compafs of this Work Writings, for they are of little Ufe in moft Articles, 
nearly within the Circle of the Year; and Jo accom- from the late great Improvements; but foall add 
modate the Publication to the Seafon, that every the prefent ufeful Knowledge. 
Week fhall dire? what is that Week to be done. The Study of Plants has undergone many Varia» 
Gardening is to be confidered in a double Light, | tions with refpett to Method , and, at prefent, thé 
as it regards Products of Ufe, and thofe of Plea- | Syftem of Linnaeus is univer{ally followed. 
fure: thefe foould be always perfeltly diftinguifh'd , No Book of Gardening bas been written fince 
and they will be bere treated in a feparate Style. | this abfolute Change in the Science; therefore all 
The Direétions concerning the firft, being fuch as the | now extant are antiquated, and, in this principal 
Gardener muft underftand, will be delivered in the | Light, altogether ufele/s. Thofe who underftand 
moft familiar Manner, and in the plainet Words: \ Plants, now call them, univerfally and folely, by 
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